Quotes with opposition

  • It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
  • Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
  • What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Genius is an infinite capacity for overcoming the opposition of mediocrities.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bhagat Singh 'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bainbridge Colby An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • James Thurber But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Abe Fortas Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Cyril Connolly Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Angela Merkel From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bryant H. McGill He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Jean Rostand I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Anne Campbell I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Frederick the Great I love opposition that has convictions.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Anna Quindlen I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bill Shorten If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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