“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.” YearsTwoCountryHundredOppositesTwentiesOpeningObservationJapanSplitsAmbiguityPresent DayTwo OppositesModernisation Author:Kenzaburo Oe
“Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.” CountryOughtOppositesIrelandDelightful Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.” BelieveKindMeanHas BeensStillsCountryUseGovernmentTermLibertyCenturyMovementEconomicsOppositesOriginalsCurrentsBritainNineteenth CenturyAdvocacyUsageCamouflage Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.” WorldLongCountryFactsStrongTermMoralTechnologyPolicyCostLowsResearchArgumentOppositesInvestmentDrawingDevelopingLong TermExpensiveReportsFundSustainabilityAgricultureExclusiveImperativesFundingCropsQuestionableUnsafeDeveloping CountriesSustainable Agriculture Author:Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.” WorldMeanChildrenCountryDarkCompanyOppositesAccountsWorkersInternationalCornersPursuitForestsLabourGlobalizationFree MarketPitsCompetitivenessEmployingCorners Of The WorldInternationalismComplete Opposites Author:Anita Roddick
“I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.” PeopleIfsShouldCountryOpinionVirtueTasteOppositesExcellenceIndispensableImmoral Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon
“The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.” FirstsCountryLastsWorryRocksSingingOppositesGuitarVocal Author:Hank Williams III
“William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!” IfsMenMadeSaidCountryWould BeOppositesTowns Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.” FirstsCountryStatesAmericaPoliticalSpiritFoundReligiousUnitedCommonAttentionUnited StatesConsequenceAspectOppositesFranceArrivalsGreat Political Book:Democracy In America -- Vol. 1 Source: Democracy In America -- Vol. 1
“Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.” PeopleWorldShouldLongCountryGovernmentRunningAgeMovingShotsOppositesIncreaseCurrentsEnormousDependentCyclesYieldRetirementLong RunsSocialistRevenueExpectancyWorld LoveLife ExpectancyRetirement AgeSocialist CountriesIndexing Author:Dick Morris
“In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.” WorldIdeasWarCountryTogetherOppositesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IComplete Opposites Author:Jimi Hendrix
“I am also going to go with somebody who is the opposite of Donald Trump and her name is Johari Osayi Idusuyi. I think she represented millions and millions of Americans who look at the message that Donald Trump is using his fame and the power he has accumulated to,you know, to send out into the world and it`s horrified. And I think her quiet resistance represented so many people because I`ll tell you, people of color have been trying to warn this country about Donald Trump for a really long time and I think she reminded us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingLooksLongHas BeensCountryNamesMillionsColorTrumpFameQuietMessagesLong TimeOppositesResistanceReally Long Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).” HeartCountryNationsCasesResourcesOppositesSuicideRateIllnessLondonMedicalMental IllnessDevelopingOutcomesHeart AttackPsychiatric Author:Richard Bentall
“I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.” ShouldYearsMeanCountryFacesDarkOne ThingStreetsBuiltOppositesSlaverySouthMeritBad ThingsJust SayingPosthumous Author:Dave Zirin
“What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side. They want to continue to use the grievance, to use whatever happened hundreds of years ago that did not even happen to them, as a way of expressing how this country is failing or is less than decent and good.” PeopleWayWantYearsCountryUseHappensPoliticalSidesFailingHappenedSolutionsYears AgoOppositesGenuineBotherDecentGrievanceEagerness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.” TwoIdeasCountryCitiesPrinciplesPerspectiveEuropeOppositesPhilosophicalEastRussiaBoundariesDefinedGreekDistinctionRegimesContinentsConsideringDefiniteAsiaTurkeysAsianInseparablePossessingSpecificity Author:Roberto Esposito
“The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingFirstsCountryNationsPowerfulRichEnvironmentOppositesIndiaExtremesAround The WorldCanadaIndigenousCliffsWrecksColombiaIndigenous PeopleBoliviaEcuadorHydrocarbonsPowerful Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.” LittlesCountryKidsSongCitiesGrewGrew UpOppositesTownsHipsBellsSaturday Author:Paul Weller
“I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.” WarCountryAmericaFightingSawsPiecesHappenedOppositesDictatorTubes Author:Madeleine Albright
“What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.” PersonsHas BeensCountryLastsMovingCourageDespairCapacityOppositesDecadesAbsenceSensitiveSpiteOften IsMoving AheadSensitive Person Author:Rollo May
“Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First.” NeedsFirstsCountryWhitePartyHealingRepublicanRedCriticismOppositesBlueRoseGlassesUsaDrowningColored GlassRed White And BlueRose Colored Glasses Author:Bill Maher