Opposition Quotes

679 Opposition quotes by 546 unique authors

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the… — Pablo Picasso
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of… — C.S. Lewis
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the… — James Bovard
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections. — Vincent de Paul
From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in… — John Woolman
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words… — Gloria Steinem
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind… — Breyten Breytenbach
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river — Heraclitus
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as… — Walter Bagehot
I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I… — Charlie Munger
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him… — Fethullah Gulen
Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological… — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes. — Robert Torricelli
Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies… — Dick Morris
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition. — Ambrose Bierce
Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone,… — Marcia Angell
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. — E. W. Howe
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a… — Prentice Mulford
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint… — Benjamin Disraeli
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a… — Michel de Montaigne
Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything… — Clive Barker

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