"Opportunist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... world, and it deserves study because it promises a better, a safer, and a fairer life to the masses. But as yet it is only a theory, a hypothesis. It has never been tried in toto.... It has succeeded only where it has allied itself with liberal and opportunist rather than radical policies."[4] ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... if never I came From my own fireside again! The way the "Thunderer" cuts me up Is vixenish—as vain. I was born an Opportunist, In a general sort of way, But it's really very impertinent For the Times to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 14, 1892 • Various
... Builder, generous, human, alert, expansive, and full-blooded. Publicist, dry, thin-lipped, pedantic, opinionative, hard." That was what he, no doubt, expected of the cast. In a word, his attempt to fascinate lacked polish. It was clumsy, almost to the point of innocence, and opportunist to the point of weakness. He did not know how to take me, and was ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... ultimately be listened to—a conviction that never failed him during a lifetime of disappointments, of neglect in quarters where perhaps he would have most cherished appreciation; a conviction that only showed some signs of being justified a few years before his death. Schopenhauer was no opportunist; he was not even conciliatory; he never hesitated to declare his own faith in himself, in his principles, in his philosophy; he did not ask to be listened to as a matter of courtesy but as a right—a right for which he would struggle, for which he fought, and which has in the course of time, ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... also some element of taste involved,—and thus made his arguments more effective than if he had alienated his audiences by indiscriminate attacks on all the institutions of society. No one could justly accuse Frederick Douglass of cowardice or self-seeking; yet he was opportunist enough to sacrifice the immaterial for the essential, and to use the best means at hand to promote the ultimate object sought, although the means thus offered might not be the ideal instrument. It was ...
— Frederick Douglass - A Biography • Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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