Clash Quotes

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.