Opposition Quotes

679 Opposition quotes by 546 unique authors

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it… — George McGovern
You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated. — Nelson Mandela
The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative… — Criss Jami
It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in… — Amani
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if… — Osman Baydemir
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that. — Sunil Gangopadhyaya
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition. — Dan Davis
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert… — Eugen Kogon
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential… — Jill Tweedie
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles… — Jacob G. Hornberger
[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass… — Howard Zinn
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. — Victoria Woodhull
Opposition strengthens the manly will. — Amos Bronson Alcott
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones.… — Vincent Van Gogh
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public… — Bertrand Russell
Opposition is the very spur of love. — Tobias Smollett
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering… — John A. Macdonald
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work. — Meher Baba
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. — Anthony Burgess
Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just… — Rush Limbaugh
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly… — Fernand Leger
Opposition is dangerous to immortality. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous… — Vince Cable

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