192 Quotes About Opposition

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

If you are good, people will criticize you. If you are bad, people will criticize you. If you are both good and bad, people will still criticize you. Therefore, don’t waste your life trying to please anyone.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

Hector was a fool when he thought he had killed Achilles. God will fool your enemies who thought of destroying you.

It is less that you are an adversary and more that you are someone with an opinion that (although frightening to me) might in some way enrich my own. And if I raise myself to being a partner with you on this mutual journey of ours, and if I refuse to bow to the posture of being a frightened adversary as you intersect my journey with a journey different than my own, we can profoundly change what we would have otherwise both died wrestling over.

Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

Socrates roamed and surrounded by the oppositions in Athens, like a lion that's surrounded by hyenas in the forest.

Are you looking for something you can despise in me or love in me? Are you looking for something you can relate to in me or fight against? Are you looking for something ugly or beautiful?