The Opposition Quotes

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.

I think the media, the boxing public hasn't seen me at my best simply because great opposition brings out the best in you.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.

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)

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

When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

It doesn't matter in any game of rugby how many points the opposition scores, as long as we score more!

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

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

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

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.

Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

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

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.