Quotes About Opportunism

#1. A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

Vladimir Lenin

#2. Opportunism has suffered the emasculation of being converted into a principle;

Jan-Werner Muller

#3. the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism. At

Nathaniel Philbrick

#4. Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.

Tony Blair

#5. One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Milton Friedman

#6. The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

Benjamin Cardozo

#7. The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around the world, they were rightly heralded as a tremendous leap forward in our ability to supplement nature by providing high-nutrient foods.

Richard J. Roberts

#8. The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Jean Cocteau

#9. The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

Vladimir Lenin

#10. At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

Arundhati Roy

#11. This is Rome. Treachery and opportunism and backstabbing run in her veins like lifeblood, and if you've never had to live your life constantly looking over your shoulder, then you have no idea how dangerous it can be.

Lesley Livingston

#12. In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

Clyde S. Kilby

#13. I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

Christoffel Wiese

#14. Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

Mignon McLaughlin

#15. this sacrifice of the future of the movement for its present may be 'honestly' meant, but it is and remains opportunism, and 'honest' opportunism is perhaps the most dangerous of all

Frederick Engels

#16. Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

#17. all this immorality and opportunism, this was what characterised them, not altruism, as the stories they had spun would have you believe. But then, this is a world whose running fuel is anecdotes and stories, he reminds himself.

Neel Mukherjee

#18. The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

Warren Buffett

#19. Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Diablo Cody

#20. It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

Fernando Perez

#21. What about the Americans?" "Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends.

Don DeLillo

#22. Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Jack Ma

#23. He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.

L.M. Montgomery

#24. I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#25. Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul

George Harrison

#26. Too many cold, hungry nights had taught her a special kind of practicality, but in that moment, she believed in his magic.

Laura Trentham

#27. When I was small your grandmother used to say that if you become a police officer, you can't choose who to protect. You have to try to protect everyone.

Fredrik Backman

#28. Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Abraham Lincoln

#29. ...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143).

Jo Deurbrouck

#30. Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

Don DeLillo

#31. I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

Tilda Swinton

#32. I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.

Kelly Cutrone

#33. It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#34. When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

Malala Yousafzai

#35. I'm never embarassed.

Charles Barkley

#36. There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.

Michael Connelly

#37. I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view.

Nora Ephron

#38. The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)

J.B.S. Haldane