Confrontation Quotes

212 quotes by 196 authors

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following… — John Oliver
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with… — Carl Sagan
The experience I learned was that â€¦ if you leave decision to the public, you can be killedâ€¦ I felt really violated: they cut my… — Marina Abramovic
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any… — Ehud Olmert
Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that. — Louise Bourgeois
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and… — Allan Bloom
The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it… — Leon Panetta
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Grace Lee Boggs
When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this strikes fear in… — Mohamed Atta
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be… — Peter Leithart
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy
God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by… — Howard W. Hunter
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the… — Alva Myrdal
As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the thing straight once… — Richard J. Daley
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. — Edward Said
Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless. — Francis Schaeffer
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the… — Francis Schaeffer
Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication,… — Stanley Coren

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