Opposition Quotes

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Great, Minds, Violent

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Courage, Struggle

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Rather, Role

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx

Peace, Socialism, Meaning

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

Business, Become, Washington

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

God, Atheist, Loyal

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin

Good, Ourselves, Shall

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
Stephen Hawking

Computers, Human, Real

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud

Made, Enmity, Merely

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

Friendship, True

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

Government, Long, Secure

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height

Woman, She, Greatness

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot

May, Become, Sweet

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Country, Friends, America

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

Strength, Grows

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Against, Believing, Order

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen

Understand, Vain, Husbands

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Men, History

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

America, Soul, Confuse

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber

Fear, Sleep, Matter

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus

Harmony, Brings, Discord

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
Christopher Hitchens

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard

True, Himself, Miracle

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.
Jon Stewart

Him, Voting, American

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Friedrich Schiller

Him, Converts, Enthusiast

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.
Bryant H. McGill

Silent, Shall, Wings

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.
Marco Rubio

Remember, Afraid, Against

In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
Conan O'Brien

Forward, Moving, Union

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia LaBeouf

Sports, Angry, Him

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Lewis Mumford

Great, Help, Against

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