Quotes About Antagonism

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

The town isn't big enough for two homicidal maniacs.

I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.

She needs an enemy so badly always that she has to keep one near and she's the nearest and the easiest to attack knowing the weaknesses and strengths and all the faults of our defenses.

If you make jokes with people, you create enemies to yourself.

You know you're doing something right when you've reduced hordes of liberals to blind, sputtering rage.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

Dislike is what creates rivalries.

I'm not a fan of Ted Cruz at all.

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

He was a vampire. I was a human. We weren't supposed to have any bonds between us, except straightforward generic ones of murderous antagonism and so on.

If you were going to be best friends with anyone – Kevin – you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

Yet they never seemed to get along.

That kid was every kind of bully. He had a grudge against anyone with one brain cell more. Which was a lot

The guy said nothing in reply to that, and Reacher stepped back and closed the door on him. Chang said, "If our aim is to get out of here alive, I don't think you should be antagonizing them.

countervailing

I experienced an unspooling sense of freedom—genuine antagonism is something I've rarely encountered, and it felt good to respond with honesty instead of obsequious scraping.

The Partisan case was advanced as well by Trilling's insistence that what commends modernist writing to progressive readers is, precisely, the challenge it often makes to progressive belief: "The contemporary authors we most wish to read and most wish to admire for their literary qualities demand of us a great agility and ingenuity in coping with their antagonism to our social and political ideals.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

Billy walked up to the car and bent down to look inside. 'Major Foster, what a pleasant surprise,' he said sarcastically. 'I'm glad you've popped round; it gives me the chance to tell you to f**k off.' Foster smiled in response