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Quotes About Opposition

the novel is a vicious attack on the guiding ideology of the party – Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought.
~ Lao She
And they never promoted anybody who could do the math, because anyone who could do enough math to understand physical limits would be opposed to socialism in the first place.
~ Larry Niven
At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner
~ Larry Smith
A person, Bobby would tell his oldest daughter Kathleen, could be judged by the enemies he made.
~ Larry Tye
But being absent and being peaceful are two different things. They can look alike, but they are really the opposite.
~ Laura Dave
Be the opposite of you :
~ Laura Dave
He doesn't drink coffee or tea,' I said. 'We just drink the blood of our enemies,' Nicky said.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.
~ Laurence M. Vance
el trote vivaz y el lento raciocinio eran, como el ingenio y el juicio[44], movimientos incompatibles.
~ Laurence Sterne
If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Given any rule, however ?fundamental? or ?necessary? for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.
~ Paul Feyerabend
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
~ B. F. Skinner
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
~ Upton Sinclair
The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
~ George Orwell
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
~ Jacob Bronowski
But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
~ Auguste Laurent
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
~ John Banville
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
~ Isaac Newton
Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
~ Muriel Spark
Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.
~ William Randolph Hearst