Confrontation Quotes - Page 13

• Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Race, Tolerance, Insane

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama is not a confrontational man. He stayed away from all confrontations, and you can look and see what happened overseas. It's a mess everywhere. So he made major mistakes, major policy mistakes. Those mistakes are not going to be forgiven by history.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Mistake, Men, Foreign Policy

  Source: deadline.com

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• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Issues, Long

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Party, Thinking, Shoes

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• Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

  Noam Chomsky

  India, Pakistan, Ifs

  Source: www.dawn.com

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