Opposition Quotes - Page 15

• The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

  Adrian Rogers

  Opportunity, Swings, Doors

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• I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

  William G. Boykin

  United States, Want, Constitution

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• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Independence, Majestic

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Frank Layden

  Soul, Mind, Suffering

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• Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Order, Law

  Michel Foucault (2005). “The Order of Things”, p.327, Routledge

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• Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Chinese, Different

  Debate on President's Address, Parliament of Singapore, March 01, 1985.

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• In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

  John Owen

  Grace, Overcoming, Spirit

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• All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Country, Strong, Europe

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.129

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• Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sex, Philosophy, Rights

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• Everybody is struggling to refine their views in opposition to the other people. And that's one of the most important things that philosophy actually has to teach us that you have to air your views and bring them to the table with people - with whom you disagree very much.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Struggle, Air

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Goal, Suffering

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• [T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Strange, Dignity

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1776”

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• [Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

  James Madison

  Law, Support, Religion

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• In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

  Jacques Barzun

  School, President, Sun

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

  Walter Bagehot

  Phrases, Majesty, England

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

  Georges Bataille

  Police, Agitation, Needs

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• I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

  Allan Savory

  Land, Years, People

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• Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Intellectual

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, Small Numbers

  Rick Scarborough (2008). “Enough is Enough”, p.192, Frontline

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• If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Party, Roots, People

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• He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

  John Prescott

  Government, Robins, British Politics

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• Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.

  Jeanne Elium

  Running, Book, Night

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts

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• Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'

  Pope Francis

  Men, Names, Differences

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