Oppose Quotes
378 Oppose quotes by 311 unique authors
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[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
— Richard Dawkins
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty.…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't…
— David Icke
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The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to…
— Janice Hahn
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being…
— Hannah More
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If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent…
— Martin Luther
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We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are…
— Tim LaHaye
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
— Desmond Tutu
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when…
— Desmond Tutu
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The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses…
— Alex Kozinski
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We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has…
— Marcello Malpighi
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The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel…
— Zuheir Mohsen
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek…
— Camille Paglia
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You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too,…
— Charlotte Ross
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The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder…
— Jefferson Davis
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A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
— Nelson Mandela
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With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe…
— Elie Wiesel
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
— Remy de Gourmont
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My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people…
— Ed Crane
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We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of…
— Unknown Author
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What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we…
— Walter Lippmann
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Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
— Thomas Paine
Who Wrote These Oppose Quotes
311 authors contributed a total of 378 Oppose Quotes, led by these top contributors: