Quotes About Antagonism

If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition . . . then he will always think of other human beings as enemies, or at least as opponents who must be pushed out of the way . . . and the object of life becomes not to help others up but to push them down.[7]

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

are driving people in the Muslim world into the arms of these militant groups. We are the most hated nation on earth," wrote Hedges.

I wanted him. Wanted him in ways that just weren't right, because nobody should fantasize about fucking their mortal enemy.

She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. They fought about the exact color of the sky and which path they should take on a hunt. They disagreed passionately about whose fish was the best tasting. They could work up extreme hatred for each other at a moment's notice.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

the follies of two when they clash together in the same point, are the most hateful ill.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.

Why antagonize somebody for no reason? Why try to garner attention by doing something negative? Why not do something positive on your own merits, instead of somebody else, whether it's to try to antagonize them or draw their ire, or even to have them help you out.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

Yet financial differences quickly soured his relations with Morgan.

I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway. Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery? It was hard not to smile at that. An excellent point. I think so.

There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.

HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat.

There's no style of contempt like the stuff one kind of savage has for another,

It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.