Oppositional Quotes

#1. Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Susie Orbach

#2. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

#3. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#4. The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.

James Fenton

#5. Recognition of the political-economic forces that impose patterns of suffering is the foundation for an applied critique of policy and services that persecute oppositional, marginalized populations in the name of morality

Philippe Bourgois

#6. The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response

Nathan Rosenberg

#7. Fragmenting and colliding both hegemonic and oppositional codes, my goal is to reinscribe validity as a way that uses the antifoundational problematic to loosen the master code of positivism that continues to shape even postpositivism

Patti Lather

#8. Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

Camille Paglia

#9. I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Willem De Kooning

#10. The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#11. For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

Evgeny Morozov

#12. Be good now, Potty...Weasel King...

J.K. Rowling

#13. Nowhere do Jesus or the apostles ever treat the Old Testament as human reflections on the divine. It is instead the voice of the Holy Spirit (Acts 4:25; Heb. 3:7) and God's own breath (2 Tim. 3:16).

Kevin DeYoung

#14. Poetry is telling something to someone.

Marie Howe

#15. Despite the loud booing from Shari and Greg, Bird managed to punch the ball past the shortstop for a single.
"Lucky hit!" Greg yelled, cupping his hands into a megaphone.
Bird pretended not to hear him.

R.L. Stine

#16. The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.

Debbi Fields

#17. Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.

Albert Camus

#18. To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

Nancy Pearcey

#19. It is proper that men listen to the counsel of women. (Coyote)

Patricia Briggs

#20. I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

Morrissey

#21. A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Gretchen Rubin

#22. I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

Priest Holmes

#23. This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

Marcel Danesi

#24. Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty