Antagonism Quotes

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

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

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

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.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.