Top 100 Oppose Quotes
#2. Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#3. I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis
#4. A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.
Marc Racicot
#5. I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.
Loring M. Black Jr.
#6. I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.
Robert Paul Weston
#7. We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did - a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
Thomas Paine
#9. The world is changing, moving beneath our feet. We are in a war, children of the Red March, though you may not see it yet, may not feel it. We are in a war against everything you can imagine and armed only with our desire to oppose it.
Mark Lawrence
#10. We come together,
Like drops of water, like astral bodies.
We oppose each other,
Like magnets, like the colors of skin.
Tite Kubo
#11. To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
Robert Anton Wilson
#12. The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#13. It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream - individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization.
Stefan Zweig
#14. Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
Bianca Jagger
#15. I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature ... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.
Philip Pearlstein
#16. I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
Wilhelm Canaris
#17. I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with.
Paul Ryan
#18. Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.
Henry Heimlich
#19. A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.
Brian Celio
#20. The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
Peter Thiel
#22. When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is pointless to fight God, who lives in us
Sunday Adelaja
#23. A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.
Mary Oliver
#24. Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
Karel Capek
#25. At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.
James Cook
#26. The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.
James Madison
#27. Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.
Jean Genet
#28. Humility is understanding gratefulness oppose to self-praise & accepting envy as the answer to your actions of excellence.
Ace Antonio Hall
#29. It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#30. We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.
Frank Pavone
#31. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
Edmund Phelps
#32. All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is ... He must have models with which to agree ... or outright oppose ... for Nature seems to remain silence.
Charles Bartlett Johnson
#33. Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.
Thomas Sowell
#34. All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal Al-Sharif
#36. It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
Camille Paglia
#37. Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.
Dave DiGrazie
#38. When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?He says, So my master will suffer loss.
Shams Tabrizi
#39. Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#40. For we cannot oppose the truth, but must always stand for the truth. 9
Anonymous
#41. Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
John O. Brennan
#42. There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."
Fulton J. Sheen
#43. To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.
Barack Obama
#44. Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.
Darrell Issa
#45. I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.
Todd Akin
#46. Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
Jacob M. Appel
#47. My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#48. Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.
David Icke
#49. ...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.
Immanuel Kant
#50. It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.
Maurice Allais
#51. I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.
Roger Stone
#52. We can help educate the individuals who are doing the things they shouldn't be doing in my opinion by understanding that there is a way to achieve their goals and desires whether it's communication skills so they stop hitting and using their anger as oppose to their intelligence.
John Assaraf
#53. [S]cience, to [Walter] Lippmann, embodied a deep awareness of the irrationality and partiality of all human beings, which led its possessors to oppose the will to dominate wherever it appeared.
Andrew Jewett
#55. Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English
N. T. Wright
#56. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.
Christopher Hitchens
#57. Some peaceniks clear their throats by saying that, of course, they oppose Saddam Hussein as much as anybody, though not enough to support doing anything about him.
Christopher Hitchens
#58. The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
George McGovern
#59. From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
Jonathan Edwards
#60. This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.
Ricardo Alarcon
#61. Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone De Beauvoir
#62. The reason he wouldn't be drawn into political or even theological debate was that he was indifferent to other people's opinions and felt no urge to engage with or oppose them.
Ian McEwan
#63. I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama
#64. I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
Elizabeth Smart
#65. We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.
Atul Gawande
#66. I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt
#67. Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.
Max Ernst
#68. It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.
Marcia Angell
#69. If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.
Kurt Andersen
#70. Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.
Rick Warren
#71. We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.
Richard Rohr
#72. And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.
Oswald Spengler
#73. There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us.
Michael Sullivan
#74. Many of us have no grasp of quantum theory, or Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, but this does not in itself lead us to oppose these theories! Darwinism, unlike 'Einsteinism', seems to be regarded as fair game for critics with any degree of ignorance.
Richard Dawkins
#75. Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud
#76. I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.
Martin Luther
#77. When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
#78. Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.
Bryant McGill
#79. Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.
Boomer Esiason
#80. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
#81. I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
George Soros
#82. Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
George Orwell
#83. When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
Chellie Pingree
#84. It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.
James Madison
#85. Feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.
Bell Hooks
#86. Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.
Jeremy Corbyn
#87. A Pew survey released this week found that 57 percent of Americans favor allowing same-sex marriage, while 39 percent oppose it. Just five years ago, only 42 percent of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 48 percent opposed it.
Anonymous
#88. When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Ann Radcliffe
#89. There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.
James Sinegal
#90. The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.
Paul Watson
#91. I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.
James Baldwin
#92. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
#93. Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Charles Krauthammer
#95. Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very best, willing to oppose all odds in order to protect the side of good.
Mira Grant
#96. Their conflicting sounds oppose one another, outdo one another, and fight to be better than one another. The crescendo of the heart being ripped to shreds, loves ... .
Mai Nishikata
#97. I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
Byron Katie
#98. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
Morihei Ueshiba
#100. To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.
Thomas Jefferson
