O Quotes
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“Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.”
Source: First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There
“Opposition is dangerous to immortality.”
“Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.”
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.”
“Opposition is the germ of improvement.”
Source: Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist
“Opposition is the very spur of love.”
“Opposition is true friendship.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.”
“Opposition strengthens the manly will.”
“Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.”
Source: Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day
“Opposition to animal research ranges considerably in degree. “Minimalists” tolerate animal research under certain conditions. They accept some kinds of research but wish to prohibit others depending on the probable value of the research, the amount of distress to the animal, and the type of animal. (Few people have serious qualms about hurting an insect, for example.) They favor firm regulations on research.
The “abolitionists” take a more extreme position and see no room for compromise. Abolitionists maintain that all animals have the same rights as humans. They regard killing an animal as murder, whether the intention is to eat it, use its fur, or gain scientific knowledge. Keeping an animal (presumably even a pet) in a cage is, in their view, slavery. Because animals cannot give informed consent to research, abolitionists insist it is wrong to use them in any way, regardless of the circumstances. According to one opponent of animal research, “We have no moral option but to bring this research to a halt. Completely. . . . We will not be satisfied until every cage is empty” (Regan, 1986, pp. 39–40). Advocates of this position sometimes claim that most animal research is painful and that it never leads to important results. However, for a true abolitionist, neither of those points really matters. Their moral imperative is that people have no right to use animals, even if the research is useful and even if it is painless.
The disagreement between abolitionists and animal researchers is a dispute between two ethical positions: “Never knowingly harm an innocent” and “Sometimes a little harm leads to a greater good.” On the one hand, permitting research has the undeniable consequence of inflicting pain or distress. On the other hand, banning the use of animals for human purposes means a great setback in medical research as well as the end of animal-to-human transplants (e.g., using pig heart valves to help people with heart diseases) (Figure 1.12).”
“Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.”
“Opposition to global hegemony cannot be the same as opposition to traditional oppression. It can only be something unpredictable, irreducible to the preventive terror of programming, forced circulation, irreducible to the White terror of the world order. Something antagonistic, in the literal sense, that opens a hole in this Western agony. Something that leaves a trace in the monotony of the global order of terror. Something that reintroduces a form of impossible exchange in this generalized exchange. Hegemony is only broken by this type of event, by anything that irrupts as an unexchangeable singularity. A revolt, therefore, that targets systematic deregulation under the cover of forced conviviality, that targets the total organization of reality.”
Source: The Agony of Power
“Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that commenced in heaven, that has existed through all time, and that will continue until the winding up scene, until He reigns whose right it is to reign, when He shall come in clouds of glory to reward every man according to the deeds done in the body.”
Source: Collected Discourses: 1886-1889
“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”
Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either.”
“Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.”
“Oppress several,
and you have several enemies.
Oppress many,
and you have many enemies.
Oppress numerous,
and you have numerous enemies.
Oppress countless,
and you have countless enemies.”
“Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.”
“Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.”
Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
“Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.”
“Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.”
Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.”
“Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.”
“Oppression and misuse will come back to our way if it is not at the same time it will be within forty years.”
“Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.”
“Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.”
“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”
“Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?”
“Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.”
Source: Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.”
Source: Big Machine
“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
“Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.”
Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.”
“Oppression is as American as apple pie.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Oppression is more easily endured than insult.”
“Oppression is not an excuse to lose your humanity.”
“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.”
Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.”
“Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.”
Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“Oppression is the character of stupid people if God wanted to punish a folk, will put them under the hands of the oppressors.”
“Oppression is the essence of power.”
“Oppression is the weapon of a dictator and expression is the power of a democracy”