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Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.
jean dubuffet— Jean Dubuffet, Asphyxiating Culture (1968).
As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.
Émile chartier— Book I, ch. 3
I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
alan kotok— On skiing; quoted in John E. McNamara (2006). Remembering Alan's Humor. Retrieved on 2006-12-26.
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
Max Born— 1968 My Life and Views.
I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. (...) I also deeply believe in human rights.
david duke— Podcast (25 August 2006)
Of all of the leaders in the region, we considered Allende the most inimical to our interests. He was vocally pro-Castro and opposed to the United States. His internal policies were a threat to Chilean democratic liberties and human rights.
salvador allende— Years of Renewal (1999) by Henry Kissinger
The ideas survived and they can now be said to be in agreement with reason. They survived because prejudice, passion, conceit, errors, sheer pigheadedness, in short because all the elements that characterize the context of discovery, opposed the dictates of reason and because these irrational elements were permitted to have their way. To express it differently: Copernicanism and other "rational" views exist today only because reason was overruled at some time in their past. (The opposite is also true: witchcraft and other "irrational" views had ceased to be influential only because reason was overruled at some time in their past.)
paul karl feyerabend— Pg. 155 (Against Method (1975))
The hawks favored an air strike to eliminate the Cuban missile bases. The doves opposed the air strike and favored a blockade.
— Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962
Before 1938, the German generals were not opposed to Hitler because he produced the results they desired.
werner von blomberg— Quoted in "Facts on File Yearbook" - 1941 - Page 2
It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
albert finney— Interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003)
Art’s true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
martin firrell— quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009)
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
rafael sabatini— Book III : Chapter 2. Quos Deus Vult Perdere
I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.
joe satriani— As quoted in "Shred on Arrival" by Alan di Perna in Guitar World (November 1993)
What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.
Norbert Wiener— VIII. Role of the Intellectual and the Scientist. p.135
The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
ludwig wittgenstein— Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough,p. 127
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
hamid dabashi— Close-up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and Future
I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism .
william ewart gladstone— Letter to F. W. Hirst on being unable to write a preface to Essays in Liberalism by "Six Oxford Men" (2 January 1897), as quoted In the Golden Days (1947) by F. W. Hirst, p. 158
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Benjamin Rush (12 April 1803).
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
samuel johnson— No. 86 (12 January 1751).
Without once compromising his artistic integrity, Fellini imagined a body of work -- as opposed to a suite of spin-offs, remakes, potboilers and so on -- where each production can be ranked as among the finest of experimental films ever to reach and influence an international public. There is a breathtaking scope to that achievement and great courage in the process: surmounting unbelievable resistance from producers, enemies of all kinds and jealous colleagues, career reversals, and poor health, Fellini held true to his own vision of cinema forged in the smithy of his soul.
damian pettigrew— On Fellini's artistic integrity, in Indiewire (April, 2003)
A man destined to sit conspicuously on our Treasury Bench, or on the seat opposite to it, should ask the gods for a thick skin as a first gift. The need of this in our national assembly is greater than elsewhere, because the differences between men opposed to each other are smaller.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 33 (Phineas Redux (1874))
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to talk about the Jewish-Muslim civilization as an axis opposed to Christianity.
slavoj Žižek— "A Glance into the Archives of Islam", Lacan dot com (1997/2006)
Pandit Ami Chandra was Fiji's most distinguished Indian trade unionist, possessing high intelligence and a quiet but convincing personality. He strongly opposed any participation of the trade unions in politics; and he also used his powers of gentle persuation to bring about multi-racial trade unionism.
— The Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, in a dispatch to London on 1 April 1956.
Basic to successful project management is recognizing when the project is needed in other words, when to form a project, as opposed to when to use the regular functional organization to do the job. At what point in time do the changes in
— David I. Cleland and William R. King (1968) Systems Analysis and Project Management. New York: mcgraw-Hill, p. 154
"I should have more faith ," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
— Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) A Study in Scarlet
Vigorous measures at present would soon put an end to this rebellion. The deluded people are made to believe that they are invincible.... When this army is ordered to act against them, they will soon be convinced that they are very insignificant when opposed to regular troops.
— Major Thomas Pitcairn, Royal Marines, in a letter from Boston to John Montagu, Lord Sandwich, the Secretary of State.
It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.
Nicholas Sparks— The Notebook (1996)
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Joshua waitzkin— Learning about Learning: an Interview with Joshua Waitzkin (Jan 21, 2009)
