The Opposition Quotes

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

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

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

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.

The murkiness of Donald Trump's position is really what distinguishes him from other Republican nominees and contenders who have been steadfast in their opposition to LGBTQ equality.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

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.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

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.