The Opposition Quotes

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

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)

If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

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.

It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

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

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

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.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

One of the reasons why a number of people have decided to go into the opposition were the reforms we carried out.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

...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.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

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

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.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.