Antagonism Quotes

• No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Grow
  • Branches
  • Antagonism

• Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Values
  • Christianity
  • Faculties

• Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Soviet Union
  • Reagan
  • Elites

• Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Life
  • Conscience
  • Tolstoy

• 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.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Evolution
  • Contests
  • Simplify

• 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.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Property
  • Division
  • Antagonism

• The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Love
  • Power
  • Liberty

• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  

  African Spir
  • Possess
  • Social Life
  • Antagonism

• What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Genocide
  • Murderous
  • Antagonism

• We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Learn
  • Known
  • Good Will