The Opposition Quotes

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

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.

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

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.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy Trump.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the safety of the opposition!

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.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

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

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

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

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.