Confrontation Quotes - Page 3

• Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Giving, Attention, Action

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.117, Stanford University Press

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• Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

  Steven Seagal

  Common Sense, Important, Should

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• Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

  Allison Joseph

  Ideas, Persons, Elegy

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Self, Issues, Moral

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

  Errol Morris

  Absurdity, Ecstatic, Meaninglessness

  Interview With Werner Herzog, www.believermag.com. March/April 2008.

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• The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  War, Path, Easier

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• I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

  Thom Mayne

  Conflict

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• Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rising, Elements, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present dictatorship in Egypt. He might start to cozy up to the Gulf dictators as a way of trying to scare the Iranians. This could lead to a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Attitude, Russia, Egypt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.

  Richard A. Falk

  Hands, Iran, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins when the Kim regime announces their willingness to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missiles program and not before.

  Mike Pence

  Peaceful, Desire, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think the White House is filled with confrontation, and is doing things to continue it. The White House and congressional Democrats think that they have the upper hand. They look at the surveys, they look at the polls, they think the Republicans are going to get blamed.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Thinking, House, Republican

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• The United States and China have both beefed up their naval presence in Southeast Asia, leading to fears of a military confrontation. This is just one example of China flexing its military muscle in recent months, and it coincides with a slowdown in the nation's economy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Military, Economy, Naval

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an unthinkable prospect. Furthermore, Trump's pursuit of Obama's programs of modernization of the nuclear forces poses extraordinary dangers. As we have recently learned, the modernized U.S. nuclear force is seriously fraying the slender thread on which survival is suspended.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Survival, Serious

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

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• Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

  Roger Waters

  Wall, Trying, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If I had to do the most consistent nightmares I have, it's probably Russia, because they're so global in their efforts to bring down democratic systems. But, I'm also worried about what could end our civilization if we started a nuclear confrontation - North Korea is clearly in our sights as an immediate major concern.

  Ben Cardin

  Effort, Nightmare, Worried

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a human being grow inside your body and eventually turn into a human being, and then birth that human being, and then have them be separate from you. Those things are scary. It's also really, really scary to face the idea of losing a child and losing someone you love more than you've loved anything before. All of those things are innately really terrifying, and what it does to me is bring me to a direct kind of confrontation with my human vulnerability.

  Karyn Kusama

  Children, Motherhood, Scary

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Good news is not news. Bad news sells. Confrontation sells. And that's what the press is always looking for. I'm not bragging, but I have the highest job-approval rating of any public official in the city. And I've had it consistently. The approval rating for the police department is 70 percent. This notion that stop-and-frisk has torn the community apart is false.

  Raymond Kelly

  Community, Police, Bragging

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• Some among the European elite have sought out confrontation with us. As a consequence, we won't help Europe, although we could do so when it comes to the refugee question. A joint closure of borders would be essential. In this regard, the Russians would be 10 times more effective than the Europeans.

  Sergey Karaganov

  Helping, Closure, Refugee

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• From a geo-strategic point of view, I consider Iran a bigger problem than the Islamic State. ISIS is a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology. But they have to conquer more and more territory before they can became a geo-strategic, permanent reality. I think a conflict with ISIS - important as it is - is more manageable than a confrontation with Iran.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Islamic, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

  John Hodgman

  Sports, Okay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Arab leadership, after so many years of Obama, they're positively giddy about the arrival of Donald Trump. And when they are giddy, like any other leaders, they might over step. And the danger, of course, is initiating a confrontation with Iran that the U.S. really doesn't want to be involved with at any given moment. They have enough to worry about on the North Korea file.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Worry, Leader, Moments

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

  John Helm

  Soccer, Football, Spurs

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• Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience.

  Griselda Gambaro

  People, Effort, Theatre

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• The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a new and fresh approach to lettering in the part of the designer. In these logotypes the combination of letters can be more or less obvious; but only deliberately contrived encounters of elements and confrontations of values can lead beyond the letters to new forms of expression.

  Armin Hofmann

  Expression, Encounters, Elements

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