Opposition Quotes - Page 10

• Opposition is the very spur of love.

  Tobias Smollett

  Spurs

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• 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 the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

  John A. Macdonald

  Independent, People, House

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, Moral, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 not working anymore.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Anger, People, Trying

  "Limbaugh: Daschle 'whining'". www.cnn.com. November 21, 2002.

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• 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 nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Lines

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• Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Immortality, Dangerous

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• 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 pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.

  Vince Cable

  War, Two, Iraq

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• I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

  Ricky Ponting

  Couple, Player, Talking

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• Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Strengthening, Loses

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• There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.

  Scott McClellan

  Views, Differences, Enemy

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• Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

  Duff Green

  Country, Misery, Saved

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• I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Party, Working Together, Taiwan

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• Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Guarantees That, Presidential, Competing

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• You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Misled, Should, Fingers

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• Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

  Justin Langer

  Team, Winning, Play

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• Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  War, Party, Ruthless

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• John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Party, Winning, Government

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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

  Max Planck

  Real, Science And Religion, Science Religion

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Sex, Thinking

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that there is a groundswell of support for the marriage amendment and for opposition to same-sex marriages.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Sex, People, Support

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Horse, Race, Government

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• Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Essence, Humanity

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