Opposition Quotes

• A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Obstacles
  • Opposition

• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Moving
  • Union

• Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

  

  Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Wind
  • Opposition
  • Kite

• There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

  

  Barnes Wallis
  • Men
  • Thought
  • Opposition

• Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Emerging
  • Armies
  • English Speaking

• 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
  • Environment
  • Revolution
  • Achievement

• Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

  

  John Milton
  • Virtue
  • Temptation
  • Remove

• 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.

  

  Michael Enzi
  • Money
  • Favorite
  • Chamber

• 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.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Opposition
  • Parties
  • Capitalists

• The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Way
  • Opposition

• 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
  • Friends
  • Treated
  • Opposition

• Opposition is true friendship.

  

  William Blake
  • Friendship
  • Opposition

• We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Economic
  • Groups
  • Minorities

• It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.

  

  Ashley Young
  • Game
  • Believing
  • Opposition

• What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

  

  Hosni Mubarak
  • Loses
  • Opposition
  • Strengthening

• 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.
  • Imagine
  • Conversations
  • Sainthood

• 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
  • Language
  • Opposition
  • Shadows

• 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
  • Change
  • Government
  • Opposition

• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Violence
  • Decided
  • Opposition

• 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.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Opposition
  • Art School

• 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.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • Important
  • Resources
  • Guidance

• 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
  • Opposition
  • Regime
  • Activists

• Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

  

  David G. Hartwell
  • Science
  • Century
  • Characteristic

• My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Opposition
  • Socialist

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