Opposition Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image ““Opposition is often illusory.”” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Opposition
“...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.” — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“This is not the time to reawaken old oppositions, but rather to seek what lies above and beyond all opposition.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp. The” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“If you have not suffered opposition in the journey of life, then, you are not real.” — Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie Copy Share Image
“Deep resentment and passive dislike due to erroneous ideas are unsettling.” — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
“Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery… — Jack R. Rose Copy Share Image
“But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. — Mary Cheney Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will,… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
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