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opposition
«Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.»
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
opposition, rises, wind rose, with the wind
«Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.»
Author: James Cone
| About:
Anger,
Humor
| Keywords:
arm, complement, complemented, complements, consumed, declare, empower, empowered, empowering, empowers, fury, left and right, opposition, oppression, prevents, the left, uncompromising
«But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?»
«If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
disarm, disarmed, disarms, opposition, refuses, The opposition
«Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ''right'' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as ''brute force.''»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, community, condemned, in common, in opposition, opposition, separate, set up, to the power
«Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affection, allow, imprisoned, imprisons, infallible, Interior, opposition, oppositions, recognize, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Enemies,
Liberty
| Keywords:
establishes, guard, opposition, precedent, secure, violates, violating
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity,
Mind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
encountered, Great Spirit, mediocre, opposition, spirits, violent
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
courageously, Great Spirit, hereditary, honestly, intelligence, latter, opposition, oppositions, prejudices, spirits, submit, submitting, thoughtlessly, uses, violent
«Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agreed, compliment, deserved, opposition, rational