Opposed Quotes
948 Opposed quotes by 792 unique authors
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
— John Hodgman
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
— E. W. Howe
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
— Victor Hugo
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law…
— Gary Johnson
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For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes…
— Derek Jeter
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Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning…
— Penn Jillette
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to…
— Samuel Johnson
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It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great…
— Elena Kagan
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I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to…
— Elena Kagan
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,…
— John F. Kennedy
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Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish…
— Patrick J. Kennedy
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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in…
— Hoda Kotb
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I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
— Jonathan Kozol
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The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
— Charles Krauthammer
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As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.
— Ashton Kutcher
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Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most…
— Richard Lamm
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Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents…
— Anne Lamott
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
— Jessica Lange
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I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as…
— Denis Leary
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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and…
— Daniel De Leon
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution…
— John L. Lewis
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The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.
— Rush Limbaugh
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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
— Rush Limbaugh
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