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Quotes About Antagonism

Why do we invest all our skills and resources in a contest for armed superiority which can never be attained for long enough to make it worth having, rather than in an effort to find a modus vivendi with our antagonist—that is to say, a way of living, not dying?
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
~ Barry Commoner
At least you'll be alive to hate me.
~ Barry Lyga
I hate dancing.
~ Kim Shattuck
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.
~ Dr. Dre
Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.
~ The Undertaker
I hated Mo Cheeks.
~ Matt Barnes
Haters will always hate.
~ Patrice Evra
Kobayashi won't talk to me. He hates me.
~ Joey Chestnut
Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
~ Warren Mitchell
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
~ Graydon Carter
When I think of a rivalry, I think of two drivers who butt heads.
~ Kyle Larson
No," Threepio responded, "I don't think he likes you at all." A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot's voice. "No, I don't like you, either.
~ George Lucas
I don't like you, either. C-3PO
~ George Lucas
A devil - A power that lives against its life
~ George MacDonald
Perhaps you have had more friends than you are aware of. You owe something to the man, for instance, who, with his outspoken antagonism, roused you first to a sense of what was lacking to you. I hope I shall be grateful to God for it some day, returned Wingfold. I cannot say that I feel much obligation to Mr. Bascombe. And yet when I think of it,—perhaps—I don't know—what ought a man to be more grateful for than honesty?
~ George MacDonald
All men are enemies.
~ George Orwell
She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack.
~ Gertrude Stein
The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
~ Cindy Sherman
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
~ Eskinder Nega
When I found out I was fighting Tim Sylvia it was the best day of my life. I don't like him, I don't respect him and I will have no problem kicking him in the head and stomping on his body. It will be fun.
~ Andrei Arlovski
I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.
~ Sarra Manning
I hate you! (Artemis) Oh, please don't get my hopes up. You almost gave me a hard-on with that thought. At least tell me this time your hatred will last more than five minutes. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon