Quotes with oppose

  • A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Smith A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • George Orwell Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barack Obama I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Hitopadesa In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Alfred E. Smith It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • J. S. Habgood Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aristide Briand The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Elbert Hubbard The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • John F. Kennedy We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the succes of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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