Opposition Quotes
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There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.
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That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.
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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.
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Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil fuel industry thinks that they have just absolute free rein to go for it. The one thing in the way is public opposition. It's civil society. It's activism.
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
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We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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?
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Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!
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Opposition is true friendship.
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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
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There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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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.
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One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.
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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.
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Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
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What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.
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I feel like it's important for young people - practically, young gay people - to know what to do and how to handle bigotry and opposition and where to go to have those resources of help and guidance. I think it's important.
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My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
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In two games (the opposition) has scored three tap-in goals. That's bad play on our part away from the puck.
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It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.
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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.
