Quotes about Opposition
I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
— Margaret Atwood
Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.
— Margaret Atwood
In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. I
— Margaret Atwood
For a whole month they'd had to play Barbarian Stomp (See If You Can Change History!). One side had the cities and the riches and the other side had the hordes, and — usually but not always — the most viciousness. Either the barbarians stomped the cities or else they got stomped, but you had to start out with the historical disposition of energies and go on from there.
— Margaret Atwood
There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian's love must be universal!
— Jonathan Edwards
The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
— John Calvin
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
— Bob Marley
People who flush easily become even more agitated when they feel themselves getting hot under the collar, and they quickly lose to their opponents.
— Anne Frank
Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.
— John Foxe
It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of persecution above ground and prayer below ground.
— John Foxe
The pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.
— John Foxe
I drink to all them that unfeignedly love the Gospel of Christ, and wish for the abolition of popery.
— John Foxe