Opposition Quotes - Page 39

• When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, World, Firsts

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• I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

  Ziggy Marley

  Rights, Government, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

  George McGovern

  People, Shut Up, Social

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• I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Wish, Assuming, Speak

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

  Tony Blair

  Leader, Lord

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• It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. 
  (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Anfield, England

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• This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.

  Ron Atkinson

  Men, Europe, England

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But we have the players, as we have shown against good opposition this season, we're an extremely difficult side to live with at home. 
  (on Chelsea)

  Frank Lampard

  Home, Player, Sides

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• We have to remember in that Bloomberg poll, strong Republican support for [Donald ]Trump's proposal, but the country at large - strong opposition to that support.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Strong, Support

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.

  Keith Ellison

  Party, Sides, Terrorist Groups

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Golf, Two, Goal

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• If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.

  Terry Venables

  England, Ifs

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• I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

  Caroline Lucas

  Real, Party, Thinking

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• The better the opposition put in front of you, the better your team plays.

  Michael Owen

  Team, Play, England

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• When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Commitment, Kuwait

  "In Praise Of Public Life". Book by Joseph I. Lieberman, 2000.

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• It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

  Jean-Francois Chevrier

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

  Leon Trotsky

  Men, Blood, Order

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• Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Party, Impact

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• Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Complaining, Stubborn, Proposal

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• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Opening Up, Benches, Body

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• ...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

  Alan Watts

  Together, World, Letters

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• This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

  William Safire

  Mean, Years, Creating

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Believe, Gun, Men

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• The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Distance, Mean, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.135, Coventry House Publishing

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• If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

  T. S. Eliot

  Religious, Example, Found

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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