The Opposition Quotes

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

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

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

One more point I'll just make about [Michael] Flynn is that we're already seeing, and we've seen Democrats come forward and start to express their opposition.

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

It is interesting that Satan, who voted for 'no opposition', has become the main source of it!

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

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

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.