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Quotes About Antagonism

Let my enemies devour each other
~ Salvador Dali
narcissist hates you wholeheartedly and thoroughly simply because you are.
~ Sam Vaknin
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength
~ Samuel Johnson
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
~ Samuel Johnson
There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
~ Robert Kennedy
He felt that flush of antagonism a poor man feels for a rich woman who is in some way asserting her superiority to him because of a wealth and social position.
~ Mario Puzo
En verdad, fue un individualista recalcitrante, constitutivamente alérgico a ceder un ápice de su independencia y a disolverla en lo gregario, lo que, de hecho, lo convertía en un enemigo declarado de toda doctrina y formación política colectivista, como el fascismo, el nazismo o el comunismo, de los que fue adversario sistemático y pugnaz toda su vida.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.
~ Anthony Burgess
Bueno, que me cuelguen si no es ese gordo maloliente, el cabrón Billy y toda la porquería. ¿Cómo estás, botellón de aceite de cocina barato? Acércate, que te daré una en los yarblocos, si es que los tienes, eunuco grasiento.
~ Anthony Burgess
It is not so in the United States. There the same political enmity exists, but the political enmity produces private hatred.
~ Anthony Trollope
Every day is kill-the-Americans day here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hostility comes in all ages, sizes and shapes
~ Sidney Sheldon
And she antagonized me by preferring the force of authority to friendliness.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She's gazing up at Eddie as though no one else exists, and I suddenly feel a little pang. They really are in love. I can see the antagonism slowly melting away in their eyes. It's like witnessing a chemical reaction in a test tube.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.
~ John Milton
CAIUS MARCIUS: GO FUCK YOURSELF
~ John Osborne
It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.
~ John Simon
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary,....
~ John Stuart Mill
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
~ John Stuart Mill
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.
~ John Stuart Mill
Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?
~ Elizabeth Wein
Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued walking, but that didn't stop my nemesis from disturbing me. He jumped in front of me, blocking my way. "It's been a whole year, has it?" he asked in a syrupy tone. "Maybe this birthday I'll finally give you what you've always wanted.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Although 1870 proved the corollary of the theory and practice of terror, that it deepens antagonism, stimulates resistance, and ends by lengthening war, the Germans remained wedded to it.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman