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Quotes About Antagonism

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
~ Umberto Eco
Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
~ John Mott
We've seen the true colours of Bisping; they come out after he fights. He likes to spit on people after fights.
~ Luke Rockhold
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
~ Moliere
Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.
~ Theodor Herzl
He looks at me. She lifted her chin belligerently, silently daring MaryAnn to laugh. If MaryAnn's eyebrow could have risen any higher it would have reached her hairline. Her mouth twitched, and she hastily bit the end of her pen. Oh, my. The bastard.
~ Christine Feehan
There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.
~ Christopher Isherwood
He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character.
~ Christopher Paolini
Con la crisis del concepto de comunidad surge un individualismo desenfrenado, en el que nadie es ya compañero de camino de nadie, sino antagonista del que hay que guardarse.
~ Umberto Eco
The working-class world was split into factions, which spent the greater part of their energies in fighting one another instead of concentrating upon the common enemy.
~ Upton Sinclair
I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
~ Lady Gaga
Have an enemy, be an enemy. Hate those who hate you. Hate them better. Hate them worse . Be the monster they dear the most. And whatever you can, and however you can, make them suffer .
~ Laini Taylor
Well," Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, "you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all." "I don't," Gabriel said. "I just dislike him." He pointed at Will. "Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?
~ Cassandra Clare
Because he's three thousand times the human being you'll ever be,' said Alec. 'Now get out of here before I risk his life by waking him up so he can turn you into a garbage fire. Something that would match your personality.' 'Oh!', said Zara. 'So rude!
~ Cassandra Clare
He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.
~ Catherine Fisher
W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Desde entonces comenzó la guerra entre los hombres y yo.
~ Giovanni Papini
Mercadores Quando Napoleão, por despeito, chamava «país de comerciantes» à Inglaterra, ressurgia nele o remoto antagonismo entre o fidalgo que paga com o seu sangue e o lojista que paga com o ouro o sangue dos outros.
~ Giovanni Papini
I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)
~ Goethe
He was beginning to see, though vaguely, the sharp conflict between woman and career, between a man's work in the world and woman's need of the man.  But he was not capable of generalization.  He saw only the antagonism between the concrete, flesh-and-blood Genevieve and the great, abstract, living Game.  Each resented the other, each claimed him; he was torn with the strife, and yet drifted helpless on the currents of their contention.
~ Jack London
The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.
~ Nayef Al-Rodhan
I've got issues with The Undertaker, I'd love to take The Undertaker out.
~ Elias
EC3 began as a spoiled brat, and I felt it was important for the fans to be able to relate to the character - not as themselves but as someone they may have encountered in their lives and really just want to sock square in the face.
~ Ethan Carter III
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
~ Louis de Bernieres