Antagonist Quotes
57 quotes by 46 authors
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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised…
— Annie Besant
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
— Joseph Addison
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;…
— James Madison
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself…
— Nathaniel Branden
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He…
— Edmund Burke
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
— Joseph Addison
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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
— Virginia Woolf
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Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest…
— Kealan Patrick Burke
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It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
— Barbara Deming
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I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out.…
— Elmore Leonard
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...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
— Paul Simon
Who Wrote These Antagonist Quotes
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