Opposition Quotes

679 Opposition quotes by 546 unique authors

I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back;… — Lu Xun
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… — Amartya Sen
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw… — Virginia Woolf
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature,… — Louis Althusser
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. — Frank Herbert
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals… — Marquis de Sade
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many… — Neil Gaiman
Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown… — Elizabeth Gaskell
OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn… — Isaac Newton
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional… — Albert Einstein
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!"… — Tennessee Williams
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day… — John Green
If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance… — R.K. Narayan
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to… — George Orwell
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. — Veronica Roth
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable. — Joyce Meyer
But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen,… — Kristin Cashore
Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger… — Nikolas Schreck
...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov
Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else. — Rajneesh
Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control. — Ellen Hopkins
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. — Aleister Crowley

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