Opposed Quotes

948 Opposed quotes by 792 unique authors

[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile… — Thurgood Marshall
Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but… — Cornel West
Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through… — Philip E. Agre
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always… — John Quiggin
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research. — Sandy Adams
I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions. — Walter E. Williams
Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have… — Todd Tiahrt
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that… — Unknown Author
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change… — Hal Abelson
Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with… — Randy Pausch
There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose… — James Sinegal
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still… — Thomas Jefferson
It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do. — Talib Kweli
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid… — Richard Selzer
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the… — Earl Browder
The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. — John Sweeney
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other. — Karl Radek
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion. — C.S. Lewis
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention… — Karl Popper
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction. — Eric Hoffer
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the… — Jan Tschichold
There had been a head of the FDA (who later turned out to be a fraud) his name was Fishbein and he was rampantly opposed… — Gary Null
The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small... — Muhammad Asad

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