Antagonism Quotes - Page 2

• That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

  Charles Tupper

  Religious, Children, Men

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• Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

  Wole Soyinka

  Firsts, Facts, Evolution

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jan 23, 2015

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• Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

  George Henry Lewes

  Uprising, Independence, Originality

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Peace

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• The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

  Leland Stanford

  Hype, Appearance, Results

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• An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

  Alan Greenspan

  Freedom, Issues, Gold

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.89, Penguin

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• By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental Quality, Growth, Strategy

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Wall, Faces, Social

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• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Culture, Politician, Poet

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• Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Oppression, Form

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Voice

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Overcoming, Resistance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Hands, People, Ordinary

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• We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Giving, People, Body

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.95, 谷月社

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• If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Mean, Arguing, Tease

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• The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Two, May

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.5496, Delphi Classics

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• A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

  James Joyce

  Regret, Clouds, Leaving

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Teaching, Devil

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• Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us, that was almost on par with him giving me a bear hug.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Book, Hair

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' "fads" through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mean, Support

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

  Martin Amis

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

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• To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

  Jack Valenti

  Russia, Risk, Bosnia

  "Public Endorses Uplifting Movies, Dole Tells Hollywood" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 1996.

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• Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Believe, Layers, My Family

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.20, Serpent's Tail

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