“I'm in opposition against to both the government and the opposition.”

— Paavo Väyrynen

When he returned to Parliament 2018 and left from the Center Party.

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Finnish politician 1946

Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer

Source: Hero

“Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms.”

Thomas Paine book Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding Liberty of Conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the Pope armed with fire and faggot, and the other is the Pope selling or granting indulgences. The former is church and state, and the latter is church and traffic.

“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Stardust Memories (1980).

“When everyone is part of the people’s congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn’t there?”

Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist

Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
Interviews

“I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Letter to The Black Commentator http://www.blackcommentator.com/47/47_cover.html (19 June 2003).
2000-03

“Print created national uniformity and government centralism, but also individualism and opposition to government as such.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 267

“Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

“A country cannot solely rely on the government and opposition parties to solve all of the problems.”

Jiang Yi-huah (1960) Taiwanese politician

Jiang Yi-huah (2017) cited in " Former premier wants to help youth go global http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2017/01/17/489623/Former-premier.htm" on The China Post, 17 January 2017

“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.”

Frank Harris (1856–1931) Irish journalist and rogue

Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 6, p. 59.

“Both Marx and Lenin always stressed the viciousness of a bureaucratic system as the opposite of a democratic system.”

Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist

Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat to Intellectual Freedom
Context: Marx once wrote that the illusion that the "bosses know everything best" and "only the higher circles familiar with the official nature of things can pass judgment" was held by officials who equate the public weal with governmental authority.
Both Marx and Lenin always stressed the viciousness of a bureaucratic system as the opposite of a democratic system. Lenin used to say that every cook should learn how to govern.

“I'm in opposition against to both the government and the opposition.”

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