Opposition Quotes - Page 13

• As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues.  We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.

  Ann Wright

  War, Believe, Army

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• Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

  Saul Landau

  Government, Trying, Pay

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

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• In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Opposites, Division

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• The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Strong, Taken, Mean

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• One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Strong, Men, Mind

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• The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Atheism, Lessons

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

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• Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

  Indira Gandhi

  Practice, Mind, Intellectual

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• Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.

  Joel Osteen

  Twitter post from May 14, 2015

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• Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

  Vance Havner

  Jesus, Men, Giving

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.

  Nabil Elaraby

  Country, Military, Russia

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• Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

  Ouida

  Love, Men, Fire

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.69

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• Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mankind

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• There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Fate, Names

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.128

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• It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Boat, Excellent

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.405, Wesleyan University Press

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• When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Excellence, Literature

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

  Jeremy Collier

  Rivers, Mind, Suffering

  Jeremy Collier (1969). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: (1698-1709).”

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• Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Mystery, Penetration, Given

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• every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

  Freya Stark

  Peace, Produce, Universal

  Freya Stark (1954). “Ionia: A Quest”, London : J. Murray

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• The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media.

  Stephen Harper

  Mean, Government, Media

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• I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the
  people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see
  a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for
  all people, not just the land control by the super rich.

  Bernie Sanders

  Land, America, People

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Important, Done, Might

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• In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mind, Doe, Smashing

  Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

  Deborah Tannen

  Party, Thinking, Ideas

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• In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

  Pat Paulsen

  Sex, Kids, Today

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