Opposition Quotes
679 Opposition quotes by 546 unique authors
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Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because…
— Gerhard Richter
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Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
— Abe Fortas
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The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is…
— Ignatius Loyola
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will…
— Ed Rollins
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We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
— Nigel Lawson
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The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the…
— Antony Jay
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Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the…
— Pratibha Patil
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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in…
— Edward H. Levi
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
— William C. Kirby
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Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it…
— James Bovard
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I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not…
— Bernardine Dohrn
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than…
— Thomas Frank
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You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to…
— Alain Vigneault
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The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against…
— Millicent Fawcett
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We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that…
— Sunil Gavaskar
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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to…
— Todd Gitlin
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The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick…
— Glenn Hoddle
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras,…
— Bianca Jagger
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Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody…
— Barack Obama
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In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast…
— G. C. Berkouwer
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