Quotes About Antagonism

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

I am not for women but against men.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.

Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

I don't like politics.

The dialogue, as a form of exposition, has this disadvantage, that it stimulates the pugnacious, or, more politely speaking, the chivalrous instinct in human nature. One of the disputants invariably goes as a lamb to the slaughter, and his pre-arranged massacre cannot but stir our sympathy. Thus a feeling of antagonism to the writer's argument is aroused by the very form. There is a cat-and-mouse cruelty about the Socratic method against which our sense of justice, nay, of humanity, rebels.

Furthermore, the sense of passion or of power, of depth and vibrancy, feeling and vision, we take away from any work is the result of the intermingling, balance, play, and antagonism between these: it is the arrangement of blues, not any blue itself, which lets us see the mood it formulates, whether pensive melancholy or thoughtless delight, so that one to whom aesthetic experience comes easily will see, as Schopenhauer suggested, sadness in things as readily as smoky violet or moist verdigris.

I bear the creature no ill-will, but still I hate the very sight of it.

Leur cohabitation devenait un théâtre de deux forces antagoniques: une attirance progressive brimée par une distance toujours respectée.

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:"If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...I would drink IT.

He sure told you off, huh, Icy?" ~Darcy