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Quotes About Antagonism

I hated Jason Witten. I appreciated his game, but I always hated him.
~ Martellus Bennett
I can't stand John McCain.
~ Harry Reid
Horrid Henry could not stand Moody Margaret for more than two
~ Francesca Simon
I have seen war…. I hate war.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs and we know now that a government by organized money is just as bad as a government by organized mob.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from a 1936 speech in New York City
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Trask cleared his throat noisily. "Enough with the blix-unicorn rivalry.
~ Brandon Mull
We don't want you along," Vin said. "We don't trust you - and we don't like you.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.
~ Henning Mankell
We please the people we don't care for, we displease those we do!
~ Henry James
At bottom, I sensed in others a distrust, an uneasiness. An antagonism, which, because it was instinctive, was irremediable. I should have been a clown, it would have afforded me the widest range of expression. But I underestimated the profession.
~ Henry Miller
to be hated cordially is only a left-handed compliment
~ Herman Melville
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
~ Horatio Nelson
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Entente hostility toward Soviet Russia, in other words, no more caused Bolshevik Western antagonism than Entente accommodation would have caused a friendly, hands-off Bolshevik disposition.
~ Stephen Kotkin
The snake will always bite back.
~ Jake Roberts
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
~ Milan Kundera
It's so much easier if you just tell yourself you're strategically heading in the opposite direction of those that wish to do you harm so that you may mock them at a later time.
~ Brian Lynch
Boyd Shreave tore the page from Eugenie Fonda's memoir and, with a contemptuous flourish, wiped his ass with it.
~ Carl Hiaasen
People who for whatever reason don't want to see the truth can be acutely hostile to it and shrill in their denunciation of it. They frequently turn their venomous antagonism on whoever dares to point out that truth.
~ Terry Goodkind
Their families cordially detested one another.
~ Terry Pratchett
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
~ Terry Pratchett
A heart at war needs enemies to justify it warring. It needs enemies and mistreatment more than it wants peace.
~ The Arbinger Institute