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“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.”

Humans Politics Human Beings Learning Opposition Sensible Supporter Indispensable Statesmen Glowing Fervent Statesmanship

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.”

People Bigs Simple Business Involved Opposition Big Business

Author:Walter Lippmann

“I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.”

Thinking Government Opposition Frank Providing Parliament

Author:John Major

“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.”

Way Government Political Desire Evil Individual Party Greed Various Branches Opposition Temper Founders Political Parties Submission Coercion Electorate Necessary Evil

Author:David Mamet

“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.”

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”

Politics Philosophical Historical Absence Socialism Opposition

Author:Karl Marx

“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.”

Literature Wind Quiet Conversation Wings Silent Shoulders Opposition Thresh

Author:Bryant H. McGill

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

War Plans Campaigns Opposition Persian Persian Gulf

Author:George McGovern

“It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.”

Firsts Important Successful Duty Benefits Tales Resistance Uplifting Novelists Opposition Blueprints Insurrection

Author:Ian Mcewan

“From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.”

Important Bigs Party Issues Policy Discussion Opposition Controversial Health System

Author:Angela Merkel

“Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.”

Evil Opposition

Author:Joyce Meyer

“People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.”

People Matter Faces Difficulty Who You Are Opposition Thank God

Author:Nicki Minaj

“If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.”

Ifs Kind Political Century Opposition 21st Century Liquid

Author:Alan Moore

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

Men Inspirational Helping Motivational Certain Courage Wind Failure Amount Determination Adversity Opposition Flexibility Overcoming Adversity Kites Adversity Motivational Rise Against

Author:Lewis Mumford

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

Thinking War Soul America Dies Peace Teaching Opposition Anti War Antiwar Loyal Dissent Peace War Make Peace Not War Peace Not War Disloyalty Disloyal

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“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.”

People Way Country America Pieces Middle News Israel East Thanks Opposition Allies Middle East Thank You Coalitions Saying Thank You

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“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.”

People Moving Fit Lows Unions Moving Forward Opposition Pants Legislation Keep Moving Forward Bans Cleveland Plumber

Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

People Ifs Views Intellectual Magazines Classic Opposition Thumbs Ideological

Author:John Podhoretz

“No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.”

Believe Reason Would Be Used Force Powerful Doubt Army Poison Opposition Gas Syria Provoking Intervention Patron Siding Poison Gas

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.”

People Thinking Way Writing Shows Literature Letters Opposition Righteous Filthy

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.”

Ideas Self Humility Intellectual Critical Opposition Intellectual Humility

Author:Tariq Ramadan

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

Opposition Allies

Author:Mitt Romney

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

Years Roles Opposition Life Lesson Psychedelic

Book:The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952

“I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.”

Judging Criticism Praise Opposition Regimes Partisans

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“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.”

Ifs Ideas Remember Offers Draws Opposition

Author:Marco Rubio

“Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.”

Literature Opposition Converting

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

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

Ifs Wells Freedom Weapons Refuse Socialism Opposition Gun Control Second Ammendment

Book:Works

Source: Works

“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.”

President Opposition Voting Massive Voters Display President Bush

Author:Jon Stewart

“Opposition is true friendship.”

Artist Friendship Opposition True Friendship

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

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

Matter Dream Death Fear Sleep Darkness Dying Opposition Oblivion Dreamless Sleep

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.”

Giving Littles Facts Helping Lying Values Language Answers Grace Expression Interviews Opposition Decline English Language Give And Take

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.”

Trying Pain Trials Opposition Thank God Joyful

Author:Mary J. Blige

“You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.”

Knows Needs Feelings Fields Opposition Hunters Hunts

Author:Jesse Ventura

“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”

May Littles Said Eye Effects Produce Color Painting Ill Contrary Shock Opposition Contrast

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

“People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.”

People Said Common Development Capable Constant Opposition Pool Participating Interacting

Book:Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm

Source: Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm

“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.”

Made Two Saint Opposition Contradiction Murderer Reconcile Philistines

Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

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

People Heart Faces Community White Violence Gun Opposition Regulation

Author:Juan Williams

“Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.”

Political President Party Demand Office Debt Opposition Routine President Obama Ceilings Debt Ceiling Opposition Parties

Author:Juan Williams

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

Men Inspirational Stories Motivational Interesting Feminism Diversity Social Justice Historical Feminist Opposition Emancipation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.”

Ifs Would Be Purpose Father Plans Primaries Opposition Frustrated Malady

Author:David A. Bednar

“A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.”

Political Challenges Party Enemy Democracy Media Activity Function Murder Corruption Opposition Civil Society Uncovering Opposition Parties Political Enemies

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

Thinking Rational Opposition Compliment Sensibility Disdain

Author:Jane Austen

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.”

Ifs Reason Funny Born Morality Expectations Humorous Argument Treated Opposition My Best Friend Great Expectations Great Expectations Important Havisham Miss Havisham

Author:Charles Dickens

“How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.”

Way Earth Law Speak Social Failing Strange Broken Creatures Eternal Mere Stranger Criminals Insane Insanity Opposition Guests Loyal Insanity And Sanity

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.”

Giving Trying Mean Helping Suffering Courses Given Goal Realizing Giving Up Perseverance Obstacles Active Objectives Characteristics Opposition Righteous Lds No Failure

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”

Way Best Way Opposition

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

Should Has Beens War Country Peace Liberty Cry Libertarian Opposition Sentiments Anti War Antiwar Unworthy Free Country

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”

Ifs Given Solitude Affection Opposition Reverse Interiors Sigh Single Infallible True Affection

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“...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.”

People Way Should Together Spiritual Used Tools Unity Opposition

Author:Deepak Chopra

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