Opposing Quotes:

Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.

- Keith Ellison

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Trump, Hamas, Opposing

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

- Barack Obama

topic: Records, Concealed, Opposing, Concealed Carry

Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: Dangerous, Position, Opposing

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

topic: Death, Sea, Arrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

- Ezra Pound

topic: Fear, War, Men, Opposing

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

- Alex Kozinski

source: "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

topic: Mistake, Gun, Rights, Pro Gun, Opposing

It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Developing, Opposing, Caring For Others, Egoism, Tibetan

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

- J. Sidlow Baxter

source: "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

topic: Prayer, Men, Messages, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

- Deng Xiaoping

topic: Bullying, Play, Tyrants, Opposing, Exposing

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

- John Diefenbaker

source: John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

topic: Country, Freedom, Believe, Freedom To Choose, Canada Being Great

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

topic: Artist, Two, Way, Opposing

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

- Emma Watson

source: "Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too". UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign, New York, www.unwomen.org. September 20, 2014.

topic: Strong, Men, Sensitive Man, Watson, Opposing

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

- Thomas John Barnardo

topic: Disaster, Opposing

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

- Bruce Sutter

topic: Baseball, Player, Spotlight, Opposing

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

- Jack McDevitt

source: "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

topic: Views, May, Problem, Opposing, Opposing Views

In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, War, Law, Opposing

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Strong, Military, War, Opposing, Achilles Heel

Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.

- Wesley L Duewel

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Victory, Opposing, Prevailing Prayer

As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Father, War, Names, Opposing, World Trade

While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Determination, Military, War, Human Will, Opposing

If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Home, Community, Trying, Opposing

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

topic: Party, Alcohol, Political, Opposing, Unanimity

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

- P. W. Botha

source: "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 251), 1994.

topic: People, Conviction, Apartheid, Opposing

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

- Roger L'Estrange

topic: Reason, Force, Brutal, Opposing, Human Reason

Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

- E. L. Konigsburg

topic: Opposing

Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.

- Caroline Myss

source: Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.132, Harmony

topic: Opposites, Forever, Choices, Opposing, Negative Energy

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

source: "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 552, 1991.

topic: Opposing

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

- Bruno Bettelheim

topic: Opposing, Neighbors Friends, Child Rearing

This is because fear and love are enemies. They come from two opposing kingdoms. Fear comes from the devil, who would like nothing more than to keep you permanently disconnected and isolated. Love comes from God, who is always working to heal and restore your connection with Him and other people and bring you into healthy, life-giving relationships.

- Danny Silk

topic: Two, People, Giving, Opposing, Healthy Life

But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Real, History, Victory, Opposing

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean, Connotation, Lethargic

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

- Elliott Carter

topic: Order, Silence, Movement, Opposing, Duos

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

- Bill Ayers

topic: Country, War, People, Opposing

Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.

- Adyashanti

topic: Thinking, Self, Division, Versus, Opposing

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

- Jose Maria Aznar

topic: Fighting, Winning, Finals, Opposing

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

- William H. Seward

source: Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 25 Oct. 1858

topic: Conflict, Force, Endure, Opposing, Irrepressible

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

- Albert Pike

topic: Brother, Ideas, Together, Opposing, Masons

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

topic: Struggle, Numbers, Long, Opposing

This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night'€™s State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Party, Night, Tuesday, Opposing, Tuesday Night

The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Powerful, Stronger, Way, Opposing, Positive Emotions

True peace is not a balance of opposing forces, and it is not ‘a lovely façade’ simply covering conflicts and divisions. Rather, peace calls for daily commitment -- it's homemade -- starting from God's gift, from the grace which he has given us in Jesus Christ.

- Pope Francis

topic: Jesus, Commitment, Grace, Opposing

One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits

- Manuel Alvarez Bravo

source: Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”

topic: Artist, Reality, Thinking, Deep Down, Opposing

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

- Jacob M. Appel

topic: Reflection, Trying, Dolls, Opposing

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Passion, Past, Annoyed, Opposing

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

- Newt Gingrich

topic: Keys, Conservative, Taxes, Opposing, Conservative Values

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 03, 2012

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Doe, Opposing, Synergy

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

- John Fugelsang

topic: Jesus, Church, Second Amendment, Nra, Westboro Baptist Church

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

- William Weld

topic: Ideas, People, Flow, Opposing, Bad Ideas

When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (2005). “Tao te ching: a new translation & commentary”

topic: Two, Enemy, Battle, Opposing

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Attitude, Majority, Pay, Opposing

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

- Sharon Begley

topic: Inspirational, Views, Overcoming, Opposing, Seeking Truth