#opposition

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#conversation #must #opposition #shall #shoulder

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true. ↗

— George McGovern

#discredit #easier #feeling #get #i

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life #like #many #my life #opposition

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#better #difficult #easy #governing #government

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#blaming #far #irrespective #many #moved

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#against #always #come #issue #knew

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#damning #i #judge #opposition #partisan

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #first #first step #glorious #greatness

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#good #opposition #ourselves #refuses #shall

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#against #combat #continuous #errors #individual