Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert EinsteinTag: greatness opposition spirit
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Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane AustenTag: intelligence reason opposition rationality compliments agreement discussion disdain
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]
Tag: politics dissent censorship freedom-of-speech opposition repression
This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt it, something else was raised: The witch fires.
André BjerkeTag: opposition burning heresy heretics
A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: opposition
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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!
Jack R. RoseTag: inspiration opposition
There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.
[Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]
Tag: science dread creed opposition university-of-virginia witches science-vs-religion clergy priests presbyterian pulpit duperies fatal-harbinger religious-sects william-and-mary
You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik IbsenTag: confidence struggle opposition resistance
[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
Christine de PizanTag: life strength injustice belief hope hatred endurance salvation opposition misfortune
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
Michael FaradayTag: methods opposition common-sense research
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