Opposing Quotes - Page 10

• Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

  Nina Conti

  Puppets, Way, Opinion

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• The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

  Errico Malatesta

  Government, People, Limits

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.46, PM Press

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• All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Political, Presidential

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• One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving, Tears, May

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• The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Passion, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's livesI never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

  Seimone Augustus

  Hate, Love Life, People

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• Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Moving, Community, Inspire

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• To take estrogen or not to take estrogen:
  That is the question.
  Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer
  The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes
  Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings,
  And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
  No more; at first the studies say 'twill end
  The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat
  That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion -
  For then they say 'twill cause us all to die
  Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub;
  For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about
  What doctors might be saying come next week?

  Sonya Sones

  Dream, Cancer, Heart

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• You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

  Charlie Munger

  Best Love, Ideas, Challenges

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• Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

  Jeb Bush

  Organization, Obamacare, Catholic

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• For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

  Mari Evans

  Memories, Cities, Has Beens

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Moving, Player

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• Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

  Nick Rahall

  Half, Bills, Facts

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• In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

  Jeff Raikes

  Views, Years, Focus

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• I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Leader, Independence

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• I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

  Eugenio Montale

  Believe, Struggle, Two

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• The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

  Criss Jami

  Sides, Conflict, Defeat

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.54, Criss Jami

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• Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

  Frantz Fanon

  Civilization, White, Guilt

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has gone to the locker room. Once the opposing team is out of the area, put them all (the fans) on the court.

  Billy Donovan

  Team, Storm, Fans

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• When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

  Hayden Fry

  Wall, Color, Games

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• We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

  George Soros

  Compassion, Community, Forgiving

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• The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  School, Views, Issues

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Comte and Hegel (pt. 3), 1952.

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• Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.

  Leonard Sweet

  Fighting, Two, Soul

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• The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

  David J. Lieberman

  Snap Judgment, Viewpoints, Next

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• It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Demand, Belief

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