Opposition Quotes - Page 5

• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Views

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

  Tim Minchin

  Passion, Love Is, Giving

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

  James Emery White

  Reading, Add, Use

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• They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

  John Major

  Europe, Britain, Moved

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• ..Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, (is) the champion of the scientific doctrine of freedom of research, which has suffered in recent years through the falsity of certain politico-physician leaders of the AMA, who faked reports, suppressed honest information, brutally slugged the opposition, both physically and through pressures, used to prevent the truth about Krebiozen reaching the American people.

  Roland V. Libonati

  Dark, Years, Ivy

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• Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Party, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.154, 谷月社

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• Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Israel, Want, Messages

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• The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Beauty, Taken, Past

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• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Bridges, Hands

  Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.181, Haymarket Books

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• If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Hurt, Strong

  T. D. Jakes (2012). “Woman Thou Art Loosed! 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Healing the Wounds of the Past”, p.18, Destiny Image Publishers

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• ...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

  Pablo Picasso

  Freedom, Artist, Expression

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• Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Two Sides, Doe

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Flux, All Things

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Criticism, Phrases

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, God, Loyalty

  M. Fethullah Gulen, Ali Unal (2007). “Pearls of Wisdom”, p.22, Tughra Books

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• Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Environment, Christianity, Pure

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• Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

  Dick Morris

  Morning, New York, Reading

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• Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

  Marc Cooper

  Real, Party, Light

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• Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.

  Marcia Angell

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "Message from Massachusetts" by Marcia Angell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

  Prentice Mulford

  Moving, Effort, Mind

  Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Wise, Hurt, Opponents

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• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Forgiveness, Strong, Powerful

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Winter, Flames

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Burden Of Proof, Should

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