Antagonistic Quotes

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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. — Emile Coue
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved.… — Bernard Lewis
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem. — Raymond Chandler
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and… — John Dewey
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head… — Kenny Smith
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of… — H. L. Mencken
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. — Plato
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement,… — Robert Bork
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come… — Lord Kelvin
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser. — Theodore Kaczynski
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An… — James Joseph Sylvester
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about… — Jennifer Beals
Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion… — Chapman Cohen
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to… — Virginia Woolf
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the… — Charles Scott Sherrington
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. — Lydia Lunch
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy. — William Graham Sumner
Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has… — Albert Einstein

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