Opposition Quotes - Page 32

• The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Musical, Accumulation, Ruling

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• Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Essentials, Ghost, Satan

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• I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

  Johnny Isakson

  Mother, Night, President

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• True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Ignorance, Law, Joy

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• It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Reading, People, Effort

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1990). “Jehovah's Witnesses I: The Early Writings of J.F. Rutherford”, Taylor & Francis

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• It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Inspirational, Men, Indifference

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.212, Penn State Press

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• So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.

  Robyn

  Powerful, Moving, Eye

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• Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

  Poul Henningsen

  Democracy, Existence

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• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

  Mo Yan

  Jobs, Mean, Love Is

  Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Apathy

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• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Mean, Appreciate, Criticism

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• It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

  Mary Cheney

  Sex, Years

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• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

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• INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Fall, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Greatest Love, I Can

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

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• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  Barry Eisler

  Art, Gun, Thinking

  "After the CIA, Barry Eisler writes thrillers" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. July 25, 2010.

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• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

  Rory Bremner

  Country, Sorry, War

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• Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.

  Steven Furtick

  Opportunity, Prove, Presence Of God

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• I am now being criticized (by the opposition) for being irresponsible for saying `I will not raise the consumption tax rate while I am in office,' ... But, when my successor does raise the consumption tax rate, it will not be simply a matter of being irresponsible. He will be criticized for raising the tax.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Office, Doe, Matter

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• Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Self, Accepted

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• There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Book, Men, Law

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group

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• Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.

  Christopher Columbus

  Time, Writing, Miracle

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for March 15, 1493,

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• Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

  Diablo Cody

  Baby, Pain, Innocent

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• The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

  Jock Stein

  Best Place, Boxes, Penalties

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• Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Religious, Men, Political

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