"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."

Bacon, Francis · Opposition · 0 fans >>
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"Opposition is true friendship."

Blake, William · Opposition · 3 fans >>
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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."

Burke, Edmund · Opposition · 0 fans >>
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"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate."

Disraeli, Benjamin · Opposition · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Einstein, Albert · Opposition · 3 fans >>
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"But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves."

Eliot, George · Opposition · 0 fans >>
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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."

Fowler, Gene · Opposition · 1 fans >>
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"I love opposition that has convictions."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) · Opposition · 0 fans >>
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."

Freud, Sigmund · Opposition · 0 fans >>
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"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

Gaulle, Charles De · Opposition · 1 fans >>
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