Opposition Quotes - Page 22

• Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

  Mitt Romney

  Allies

  "Mitt Romney's Wisconsin Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

  Jean Rostand

  Judging, Criticism, Praise

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

  Marco Rubio

  Ideas, Remember, Draws

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• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Literature, Converting

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• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Freedom, Gun Control, Weapons

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

  Jon Stewart

  Voting, President, Voters

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• But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

  James Thurber

  Death, Dream, Fear

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1163, Library of America

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• My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

  James Thurber

  Lying, Expression, Giving

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

  Jesse Ventura

  Feelings, Hunters, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Color, May

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3307, Delphi Classics

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• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  Orson Welles

  Two, Saint, Contradiction

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

  Juan Williams

  Heart, Gun, White

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• Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

  Juan Williams

  Party, Office, Political

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• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2649, Delphi Classics

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• If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Frustrated, Would Be

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• A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Party, Media, Political

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• Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Compliment, Rational

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 36, 1811.

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• I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Expectations

  1860-1 Pip. Great Expectations, ch.4.

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• How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Law, Broken, Insanity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.773, Simon and Schuster

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• Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Mean

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• It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.229, Henry David Thoreau

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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• Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

  Simone Weil

  Single, Solitude, Affection

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• ...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, People, Unity

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• Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

  John Muir

  Creative, Progress, Blind

  "Mankind at the Turning Point". Book by Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, 1974.

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