24 Quotes About Antagonism




  • Author Miguel Syjuco
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    Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale

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  • Author Joseph Conrad
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    Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous--so full of hope. They exist! And this is the only fundamental truth of fiction.

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  • Author Terry Carter
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    A peer complimented me on how well I handled a meeting, which turned hostile. I didn't even notice. I had come to expect such hostility and antagonism as the norm. I needed a break and decided to create an environment I wanted to return to each day.

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  • Author Edward Grey
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    I cannot conceive any point which can arise in the immediate future which would bring ourselves and the Germans into antagonism of interests.

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  • Author Eric Idle
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    There was often antagonism and chair throwing and stamping of feet, which is kind of a healthy thing to do when you're arguing about what's funny. That healthy tension was something that held the group together.

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  • Author Richard Lamm
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    History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

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