Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. Votes: 1
John Kenneth GalbraithThe opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Votes: 1
Jim HightowerEvery idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelDemocracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd Wright[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonNever were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions. Votes: 0
William Hamilton MaxwellRepetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown. Votes: 0
Steven LevenkronThe opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation. Votes: 0
Mark SheppardLove and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. Votes: 0
Alexander Sutherland NeillTwo quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereTransformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. Votes: 0
Alexandra RoachIn football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreOrder is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true. Votes: 0
Richard Saul WurmanWatch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. Votes: 0
Earl NightingaleNews makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite. Votes: 0
Robert GreeneRepose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy. Votes: 0
John RuskinPsychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite. Votes: 0
Craig DavidPleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. Votes: 0
Pierre CharronTake the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference, Votes: 0
Abraham Joshua HeschelYou have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertIf and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail. Votes: 0
David O. SelznickWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. Votes: 0
Henry FieldingEverything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. Votes: 0
Lawrence FerlinghettiThe opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly. Votes: 0
Jerry BridgesThe opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. Votes: 0
Tim FerrissStrategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. Votes: 0
Henry MintzbergIn the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience. Votes: 0
Howard G. HendricksFreedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty. Votes: 0
Jacqueline NovogratzSense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas. Votes: 0
Thomas Lansing MassonIt is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. Votes: 0
Jedediah PurdyWhen somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite. Votes: 0
Tim AllenWhat is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture. Votes: 0
Erich FrommIn excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Votes: 0
Tim FerrissPhysical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. Votes: 0
Eben AlexanderSeeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultMy upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. Votes: 0
Graham SwiftLaw practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad. Votes: 0
Mortimer ZuckermanI wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! Votes: 0
Benedict CumberbatchAlmost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. Votes: 0
George SantayanaTo the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghOur culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardLovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacThat's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Votes: 0
Warren G. BennisWorking opposite Max Greenfield is the best job in the world. He's just incredible. Votes: 0
Hannah SimonePublic education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. Votes: 0
May SartonHumility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldA bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. Votes: 0
Nathaniel BrandenAnger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. Votes: 0
Gloria SteinemSome people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite. Votes: 0
Guillermo E. BrownSeriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that. Votes: 0
Leonard CohenWhereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite. Votes: 0
Sara SheridanThe ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite. Votes: 0
Karl von FrischPolitics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. Votes: 0
John AvlonI would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation. Votes: 0
Bill MaherThe most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways. Votes: 0
Radhanath SwamiGovernment means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesFor every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. Votes: 0
Norman Ralph AugustineThe law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. Votes: 0
Thomas SowellShort-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite. Votes: 0
Eben PaganLove is the opposite of fear and it lights the flames of a million hearts. Votes: 0
Amy Leigh MercreeThis is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsA feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. Votes: 0
Thomas MalthusI don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it. Votes: 0
Courtney BarnettIf every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. Votes: 0
Jerry SeinfeldLesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun. Votes: 0
Jeff SampsonHate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care. Votes: 0
Kanye WestEnemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanBasically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. Votes: 0
Willem DafoeI'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite. Votes: 0
Keren AnnLove is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . . Votes: 0
e. e. cummingsLearn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned. Votes: 0
Ernst HaasIt takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinWe should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. Votes: 0
Aneurin BevanFor me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy. Votes: 0
Elie WieselI really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one. Votes: 0
Johnny DeppThe advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. Votes: 0
Kurt TucholskyArt is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. Votes: 0
Julia CameronSome people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray. Votes: 0
Azran Osman RaniState your point. If the opposite party doesn't agree, state it harder- with a punch. Votes: 0
Jennifer BernardWhat deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love'). Votes: 0
Tony WilliamsAlthough I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer. Votes: 0
Gwen StefaniViolent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite. Votes: 0
Norm MacDonaldPeople compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite. Votes: 0
Megan FoxWe need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerWho ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. Votes: 0
George RaftShe knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. Votes: 0
Susan WiggsHistory is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. Votes: 0
Edmund Snow CarpenterIn two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithThe cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. Votes: 0
F. Scott Fitzgeraldsometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. Votes: 0
Maria EdgeworthProtagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other. Votes: 0
DiogenesThere can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA. Votes: 0
Dahlia LithwickNow, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people. Votes: 0
Kristin Scott ThomasThe second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite. Votes: 0
Ashley MadekweThere aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite. Votes: 0
Teresa PalmerI try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan. Votes: 0
Jim GaffiganI like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. Votes: 0
John WatersIf you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. Votes: 0
Mel BrooksPeople always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonThe opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. Votes: 0
Marcus BuckinghamThere are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Votes: 0
Alan WattsDo exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd. Votes: 0
Marshall SylverSatan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisIf anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. Votes: 0
Annie BakerWhen the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanZero is powerful because it is infinityâs twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and Votes: 0
Charles SeifePeople think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite Votes: 0
Brent SpinerPeople think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite. Votes: 0
Brent SpinerTo succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. Votes: 0
Cary GrantThere are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaIn my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. Votes: 0
Hugh DancyIn a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotIt is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. Votes: 0
Eric HofferWe want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite. Votes: 0
Thomas PikettySeek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite. Votes: 0
Seth GodinBut Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies. Votes: 0
Jim ColemanThe simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God. Votes: 0
Simone WeilMost people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I've spent my life doing the opposite. Votes: 0
Marina AbramovicOh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! Votes: 0
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonAn erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebA successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does. Votes: 0
William Delbert GannDesign is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. Votes: 0
Robert L. PetersI mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way. Votes: 0
Bruce BennettFor strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am. Votes: 0
Brad WilliamsI decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy. Votes: 0
Mortimer ZuckermanI wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life Votes: 0
Dyan CannonI wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life. Votes: 0
Dyan CannonI'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent. Votes: 0
Jim GaffiganMy parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. Votes: 0
Jane PauleyI won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite. Votes: 0
Penelope CruzIf anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. Votes: 0
Kristin Scott ThomasIt's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. Votes: 0
Sam LevensonI find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me. Votes: 0
Lupe FiascoLove is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is. Votes: 0
Vironika TugalevaDo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaMoving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off. Votes: 0
Franklin GilletteI was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareDeath is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleIn the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained Votes: 0
Higa YuchokuThere's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god. Votes: 0
Richard RoundtreeI had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked. Votes: 0
David GrossThe politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. Votes: 0
Maurice BarresThe truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Votes: 0
Susan SontagThe opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person! Votes: 0
Amish TripathiThe harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. Votes: 0
Douglas CouplandAnd then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike. Votes: 0
Wanda SykesYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardLying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you. Votes: 0
Greg BehrendtIt is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. Votes: 0
Abba EbanThe opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person! Votes: 0
Amish TripathiThere is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it Votes: 0
Eric HofferThe opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love. Votes: 0
Barry LopezEverything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonFor me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough. Votes: 0
Brene BrownFor me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough. Votes: 0
Brené BrownI remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Votes: 0
Emily GiffinWhat is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. Votes: 0
Joseph de MaistreYou become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite"¦ Votes: 0
Norman Vincent PealeWhoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved. Votes: 0
RumiI love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am. Votes: 0
Cierra RamirezLove does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyCultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. Votes: 0
ConfuciusWhenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite. Votes: 0
Frank CapraThe opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. Votes: 0
Theodore J. ForstmannWhat I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music. Votes: 0
Marina and the DiamondsComputers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. Votes: 0
Bill LaswellI don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me. Votes: 0
Brad WilliamsI tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent. Votes: 0
Nicki MinajWhen we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful. Votes: 0
HoraceSometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing. Votes: 0
Daisy WhitneyPink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that. Votes: 0
Ozzy OsbourneIf you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work. Votes: 0
Rosie O'DonnellI try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. Votes: 0
Kim Ki-dukI like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. Votes: 0
Joe StrummerComme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex Votes: 0
Rei KawakuboFor a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite. Votes: 0
Judd ApatowSome people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Votes: 0
Coco ChanelI thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. Votes: 0
Alanis MorissetteMy husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends. Votes: 0
Susan FordTo do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergIt's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond. Votes: 0
Randeep HoodaI'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that. Votes: 0
Chad KroegerWell, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. Votes: 0
Murray WalkerDonald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward. Votes: 0
Ansel ElgortI think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are. Votes: 0
Bryan CranstonWhat I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it Votes: 0
Richard Harding DavisI have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love. Votes: 0
Marilyn MonroeSince I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing. Votes: 0
Emmanuel LewisJust my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireI have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauMan walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. Votes: 0
Elie WieselBravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that. Votes: 0
Hank GreenIs it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? Votes: 0
Sena Jeter NaslundErik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminPlaying an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do. Votes: 0
Michael GiraThe opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. Votes: 0
Warren G. BennisThe proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroGood and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. Votes: 0
Sheri HolmanIt takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. Votes: 0
Eric HofferAs happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap. Votes: 0
Gilbert ArenasThere is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. Votes: 0
Joseph FiennesIt is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellI always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud. Votes: 0
David BeckhamI moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite. Votes: 0
Jaume Collet-SerraAs if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreYet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. Votes: 0
Jeremy PivenA deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true. Votes: 0
Niels BohrWhy lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. Votes: 0
Cristiano RonaldoThe corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. Votes: 2 Kenny Loggins