Opposition Quotes
679 Opposition quotes by 546 unique authors
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No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both…
— John F. Kennedy
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize…
— Gary Zukav
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In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where…
— C.S. Lewis
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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour…
— Patricia Hewitt
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If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
— Frederick Lenz
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It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave…
— Unknown Author
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It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!
— Unknown Author
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Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the…
— Peter FitzSimons
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The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
— Gustav Stresemann
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We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
— King Hussein I
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
— Edwin Land
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Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's…
— Dee Dee Myers
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Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read…
— Byron York
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Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true'…
— Robert Sheaffer
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Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their…
— David Hilbert
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Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about…
— Kenny Smith
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Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,…
— Thomas Merton
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Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to…
— John of Kronstadt
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not…
— Peter DeFazio
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Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contridicted thought is hard work that is…
— Esther Hicks
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You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
— John C. Maxwell
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Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom
— Pope Benedict XVI
Who Wrote These Opposition Quotes
546 authors contributed a total of 679 Opposition Quotes, led by these top contributors: