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My job is to be your loyal opposition.
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
antipathy toward
Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.
It isn't about who is 'for' or 'against' you, it's about who you are for.-- Andy Stanley
Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.
Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you.
Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you.
I choose not to fight against but to stand for. Not to go against but to go for.
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don't ever run from it; learn from it!
Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions.
Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.
Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?
Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together
He that is not with me is against me (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position; there is no middle ground!
The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.
Fighting [in defence] is ordained for you, abhorrent as it may be to you. You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not.
Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.
You can be for someone without being against someone else.-- Joe Andrew
If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and should only express those views you honestly hold.
anti-intellectual
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.
In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.
People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.
When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.
Your opposition is the most powerful tool you can use to rise up.
To use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
The opposite of liking is not disliking, after all. The opposite of liking is apathy.
When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.
You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
I'm very, very pro-defense.
We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
armed with the discourse of counter-ideology.
I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.
The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
I found that in such a small, polarized society, taking sides meant you were actively rejecting others, animating opposition.
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.
To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.
The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.
as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
I'm not sure exactly. Against what, Addie?" Laila asks with a smirk. "Against unnormalcy. Antiaverageness.
Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.
Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. To counter these the subject has to switch to a diametrically opposed attitude.
I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know
Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right
Opposition is dangerous to immortality.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march ...
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.
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So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.
The object is that which is objected against me.
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference
You know who is for you and against you when you confront.
So i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.
In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.
In some countries, pertaining to the opposition qualifies you as official enemy of the state and by that designation the state is in its right to defend itself
The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
Success depends on our using, and not opposing ...
Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
We are not against the evil when our enemies are.
We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side
I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!
Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.
To every argument an equal argument is opposed,
The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
The struggle between "for" & "against" is the mind's worst disease.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is.
If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.