Quotes with opponents

  • Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
  • If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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  • Jan Christian Smuts A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Maxwell Planck A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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  • Max Planck An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Dwight Morrow Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
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  • Campbell Brown Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Sam Snead Forget your opponents; always play against par.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Aeschylus If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ben Carson Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Nigel Farage My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bob Riley The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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