Quotes About Opposition

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration

If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had.

The tide had turned, and the worst possible thing had happened: my heroes had become the "bad guys," and one didn't dare say otherwise.

When the friar answered that the good ones did, Hatuey at once answered that he preferred hell, "so as not to be where Spaniards were.

They were often seen as terrorists as they enjoyed making Romans their victims.

he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

The problem with enemyfying is not that we never have enemies: we often face people and situations that present us with difficulties and dangers. Moreover, any effort we make to effect change in the world will create discomfort, resistance, and opposition. The real problem with enemyfying is that it distracts and unbalances us. We cannot avoid others whom we find challenging, so we need to focus simply on deciding, given these challenges, what we ourselves will do next.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.

At that level through out the 18th century, another vision of admirable behavior persisted. The mob did not want the smooth conformable man, the slick hypocrite who could so politely maneuver his way into the rewards of high politics and high society. They wanted his very opposite, the clever thief. The man who thrived not by using the well oiled wheels of society but by opposing them and cheating them; by attending to the well-being of his own heroic self.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.

My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I want to go ahead with my aggressive politics and the generals try to stop me. That's a false situation.

Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than to fight against knowledge.

Imparai l'importanza del dolore fisico nei confronti del singolo come della massa. Anche qui è necessario un calcolo preciso degli effetti psicologici: il terrore sarà sempre accompagnato dal successo, se non vi si oppone un identico terrore

If Social Democracy were to be opposed by a more truthful but equally brutal teaching, then this truthful teaching will ultimately prevail-even though the struggle may be of the bitterest kind.

For us there are only two possibilities: either we remain German or we come under the thumb of the Jews. This latter must not occur; even if we are small, we are a force. A well organised group can conquer a strong enemy. If you stick close together and keep bringing in new people, we will be victorious over the Jews.

Se uma doutrina que encerrasse mais inveracidade ao lado de idêntica brutalidade na propaganda, fosse oposta a social-democracia, triunfaria do mesmo modo, por mais áspera que fosse a luta.

En diversos escritos, Simmel describió la figura de aquel que se opone a la seguridad de lo que llamaríamos a grandes rasgos, vida burguesa. Lo llamó de diferentes maneras: aventurero, vagabundo, viajero o extranjero.

The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.