Antithesis Quotes · Page 2

“Passion was the antithesis of morality.”

— Rabih Alameddine

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

— Baldassare Castiglione

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

— Willie Garson

“Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.”

— Alain de Botton

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

— Douglas Wilson

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

— Anonymous

“Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.”

— Allan Lokos

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

— John O. Brennan

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

— John Clayton

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

— Allen West

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

— Herbert Read

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

— Elisabeth Elliot

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is…

— Alan Bennett

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off…

— Ron Fournier

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is…

— Vera Farmiga

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is…

— Alan Moore

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that…

— Lenny Bruce

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot…

— Soren Kierkegaard

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved.…

— Wole Soyinka

When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other…

— Erick Erickson

The Bush Republicans' policies are, the antithesis of patriotic. And so we urge Democrats to reclaim patriotism - to call on all…

— Paul Begala

Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her…

— Marina and the Diamonds

You are the antithesis of a racist if you're white and you want to be black and you go out and do…

— Rush Limbaugh

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would…

— Giordano Bruno

You're encouraging a response in citizens and the public, that has nothing to do with an informed decision, that has nothing to…

— Frank Bruni

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

— Ayn Rand

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

— Raquel Welch

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

— Glenn Beck

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

— Paul Walker

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior.

— Raquel Welch

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

— Jonathan Shapiro

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

— Michael Shermer

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

— C. S. Lewis

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force

— Thomas Sowell