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Quotes About Antagonistic

I like being the hated one.
~ Matt Barnes
She possessed the unique ability to aggravate almost anyone she ever met.
~ Markus Zusak
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
~ Noam Chomsky
I have a face you want to punch:
~ Gillian Flynn
he's a menace to society
~ Gordon Korman
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
~ Trofim Lysenko
But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about one of the deadliest and most crucial: the alleged dichotomy of science and ethics. It is the doctrine that man's science and ethics - or his knowledge and values, or his body and soul - are two separate, antagonistic aspects of his existence, and that man is caught between them, as a precarious, permanent traitor to their conflicting demands.
~ Ayn Rand
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara
The needs, tastes, aspirations and interests of mankind are neither similar nor naturally harmonious; often they are diametrically opposed and antagonistic. On the other hand, the life of each individual is so conditioned by the life of others that it would be impossible, even assuming it were convenient to do so, to isolate oneself and live one's own life. Social solidarity is a fact from which no one can escape.
~ Errico Malatesta
What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the public confidence, to make the public laugh? Is it because humor and sound sense are essentially antagonistic?
~ H.L. Mencken
As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.
~ John Chaney
It is only those in whom the desire to think truly is itself a passion who will find this desire adequate to control the passions of war. Only passion can control passion, and only a contrary impulse or desire can check impulse. Reason, as it is preached by traditional moralists, is too negative, too little living, to make a good life. It is not by reason alone that wars can be prevented, but by a positive life of impulses and passions antagonistic to those that lead to war.
~ Bertrand Russell
I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
~ Herbert Spencer
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.
~ Herbert Marcuse
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
~ Howard Stern
I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.
~ Steve Coogan
You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.
~ Steven Pinker
I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon
~ Tite Kubo
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
~ Mason Cooley
The antagonistic exponents of freedom and absolutism must thus meet at last and then will be fought the mighty battle on which the world will look with breathless interest; for on its issue the freedom or the slavery of the world will depend.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Words like 'always' and 'never' were meaningful to my father, who thought in absolutes and whose mind consequently made great leaps in antagonistic directions when it leapt at all.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
in the antagonistic society, the relationship of the generations is also one of competition, behind which stands naked violence.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
I swear, I've never met any demon as annoying as you are." "You haven't met my youngest brother.
~ Larissa Ione