The duty of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is to oppose.
Robert A. Heinlein
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SIR RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER CHURCHILL Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
WOODY ALLEN But nobody will oppose that because there is already an unanimous decision by community members that...
ATA TABEUTA To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.
WOODY ALLEN Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate...
BIANCA JAGGER There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The duty of the opposition is to find fault with the existing proposed arms procurement package.
JAMES SOONG To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
EVAN OSNOS A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of hi...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tou...
JOHN DICKERSON To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
WOODY ALLEN This isn't a plan. This is a joke. If this is the best solution our loyal opposition can present, I'...
CHUCK SCHALLIOL I've taken some of our loyal opposition up through the tower and they've eaten their words.
DEBORAH FRIEDEN If this is the best solution our loyal opposition can provide, then I guess I'm really disappointed.
CHARLES SCHALLIOL There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised p...
MARGARET CAVENDISH I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his ...
PAMELA DEAN It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol...
THOMAS PAINE We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of Ame...
EDWARD R. MURROW It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
THOMAS HORDER There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT I expect intense pressure on the president from the loyal opposition to nominate as moderate a voice...
DOUGLAS W. KMIEC It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, a...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN It's important for people to constantly express their opposition to unjust policies. It's our patrio...
DEBORAH SMITH Opposition is OK, that you were opposed does not mean you were wrong
SOTONYE ANGA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim ...
CHARLES HODGE People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The...
D.S. MASHEGO People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The...
D.S MASHEGO Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Women should be obscene and not heard.
PAUL MEREDITH POTTER The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learn...
WALTER LIPPMANN The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always lea...
WALTER LIPPMANN Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
REX HARRISON I have to oppose his nomination, ... This is awkward and uncomfortable.
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales ...
IAN MCEWAN Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, l...
ADAM MICHNIK At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound
to consecrate his every faculty to ...
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting polic...
LIU XIAOBO His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his
sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left ...
NICK COHEN It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
TIBERIUS CAESAR It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
TIBERIUS I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest,
Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;
White are his shoulders...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
CLAUDE MCKAY Courage often comes from the sense of responsibility and duty. Mahatma Gandhi was a kind man of cour...
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's been a great relationship, and the consistency helps out. He's a mentor, father figure, a frien...
BUD FOSTER You don't have to agree, but once it's done, let's move on. Loyal opposition, saying 'By God, I'll b...
WAYNE WORNER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another...
BHAGAVAD GITA It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...
BHAGAVAD GITA One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of anoth...
LAO TZU It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of h...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his inst...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU [Loyal Opposition is] back to her old self. I thought she might be a little tired since we were raci...
ANDY MILLER An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must...
ROGER ZELAZNY Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal l...
JOSIAH ROYCE The pontiff reiterated his opposition to stem cell research
ALESSIO VINCI The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary ina...
THIRUVALLUVAR To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to e...
MARLON BRANDO To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to e...
JAMES DEAN It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is...
E. B. WHITE It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is...
E. B. WHITE The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
HENRY KISSINGER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
F. L. LUCAN Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
LUCAN The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES A. FROUDE The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions...
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions...
ALBERT EINSTEIN He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.
HUGH DALTON The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. ...
ALEXIS CARREL As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my r...
KURT HUBER Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable...
MARK TWAIN Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable...
MARK TWAIN Duties are not performed for duties' sake, but because their neglect would make
the man uncomfortabl...
MARK TWAIN But nowadays -- Our weakness for the last few years has been the ineffectiveness of the Opposition. ...
H.G. WELLS It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
VERNON HOWARD It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I came, I saw, she conquered."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Television leaves no external scars.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mother Thing makes our world.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN More depended on the student than on the school.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
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