Opposition Quotes
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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.
Leon Trotsky
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There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.
Barnes Wallis
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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
John Milton
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It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.
Ashley Young
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Opposition is the very spur of love.
Tobias Smollett
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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.
Anthony Crosland
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The regime is mostly interested in discrediting the opposition, including using the services of prostitutes to put opponents in a sex scandal and sometimes mainstream human rights activists as well.
Nikolay Alexeyev
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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.
Albert Camus
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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake
