Quotes About Confrontation

The next two essays, "My Vietnam Lessons" and "Semper Fidel," belong to this genre, and are attempts I made to confront our radical cohort with the harsh realities of what we had actually done. Vietnam was the defining issue of our generation but the events that unfolded proved that those of us who were active in the anti-war movement had been wrong on every critical point, and that our actions had tragic consequences for the people we claimed to be defending.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

confrontation, n.: You turn away from the truth when asked to face it, while I stare at it too long, until it becomes a blur.

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

Get shitfaced, then face the shit.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away.

Curses aren't passive things. They'll fight back.

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on.

rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.)

Calling someone a loser is a way of saying I've won without having to actually win anything.

But instead she freezes. She looks away, as if she can ignore her way out of it.

Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home ground, and it never feels good to know that people have to go through that.

amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

Don't give me that, Charlie

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache.

Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.

People don't want to calm down because then they see things they sort of knew but didn't want to face.

She said, "I'm going to have you fired." I had two people say that to me today, "I'm going to have you fired." Go ahead, be my guest. I'm wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn't get any worse than this. Who do these people think they are? I'm going to have you fired!" and I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed.

Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you something to fucking kick about

She was at a cash register, screaming at a customer. She was, in fact, calling this customer a bitch. I touched her arm and said, "I have to go now." She laid her hand on my shoulder, squeezed it gently, and continued her conversation, saying, "Don't tell the store president I called you a bitch. Tell him I called you a fucking bitch, because that's exactly what you are. Now get out of my sight before I do something we both regret.

I'm going to have you fired!" and I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed.