Antipathy Quotes

• We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

  James Joyce

  Together, Bounds

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• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Violent

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

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• Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

  George Tenet

  Two Sides, Iraq, Ties

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• The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Average, People

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• Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

  Virginia Woolf

  Nature, Tears, Together

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Doubt, Able

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

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• A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Sex, Wedding Anniversary

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• Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Asks, Provocation

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197

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• Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Love, Hate, Views

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• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Class, England, Huge

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• The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

  Albert Pike

  Sympathy, Law Of Attraction, Principles

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

  Franz Boas

  Strong, Party, Years

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.68, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Frustration, Gun

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• It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Feelings, Common

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.229, Penguin

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• Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Hate

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2017

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• It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Frustration, Gun

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

  Rick Santorum

  Apology, Sacrifice, America

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• An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Exercise, Emotional

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• There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Land, Two

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.144, The Overlook Press

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• Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Science, Lifelong

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• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

  Katie Holmes

  Mean Girls, Hate, Mean People

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• Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Education, Children

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Common, Mutual, Expected

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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