Opposition Quotes - Page 9

There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

Frederick Lenz

Choices, Joy, Opinion

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Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

Frederick Lenz

Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

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Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

Murray Rothbard

Education, Teacher, Religious

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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

Robert Vaughn

War, Speaks Out, Hollywood

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If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

Vance Havner

Christian, Fighting, Church

Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Leadership, Fate, Flames

Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

Rohinton Mistry

Helping Others, Evil, Choices

"Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

G. C. Berkouwer

Jesus, Christ, New Testament

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With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
Ottoman Empire a century ago.

Hisham Melhem

Islamic, Civilization, Broken

"The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Nelson Mandela

Principles, Compromise, Dangerous

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The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

Criss Jami

Crazy, Ambition, Mad

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It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

Amani

Issues, Leader, Citizens

"Karume gives condition for meeting Seif". The Guardian, May 20, 2008.

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I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.

Osman Baydemir

People, Funeral, Apologizing

"After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.

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One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

Sunil Gangopadhyaya

Running, Want, States

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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Voice, Trying, Difficult

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If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

Dan Davis

Enemy, Busy, Ifs

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Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.

Eugen Kogon

Effort, Opinion, Common

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It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

Jill Tweedie

Thinking, Race, Issues

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Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Military, Mean, Air

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The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

Jacob G. Hornberger

Government, Principles, Morality

Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.

Howard Zinn

Loyalty, School, Patriotic

Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Victoria Woodhull

Mean, Men, Doors

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Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Manly

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To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

Vincent Van Gogh

Stars, Sunset, Light

Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

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