Quotes About Antagonism

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

He had decided long before that he was going to loathe her. It was inconvenient therefore that she was kind.

The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!

Smiled at Smitty. Leered at Dez. And practically spit at Mace. Man, the staff at this restaurant really didn't like him.

I hate her." "Yes. I know. In fact, I think the entire universe knows.

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn't be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

Go now, he said harshly, before I forget that there can never be anything but enmity between you and me.

They were all dependent upon him—and he did not like her.

You're the enemy. I don't want to sympathize with you. So... So don't... Don't cry like that in front of me! Damn it...

Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless solicitude was an ugly danger.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?

It was a satisfying bravery; it never aroused antagonism.

Ideologies, and hence ideological clashes, antagonism, and fixations, are as old as civilization itself. During most of history, ideologies were mainly religious, whereas during modern times they have taken the form often described as secular religions or religion substitutes. They have always served to legitimize socioeconomic and political orders, or have projected alternatives to them.

the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated.

The answer to your inquiry is quite simple. You have no need for enemies. You play that role for yourself with perfection. - Kurt Eisenhuth

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.