The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than... from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the worl...d, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's ...intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliat...ion and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength--and strength to enhance affiliation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to lo...ok for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, i...t is the agitation of all men ... that alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obese is ... in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. H...e no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing st...ands in the way of our happy union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »