Confrontation Quotes

212 quotes by 196 authors

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.… — Laozi
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight… — Matt Taibbi
My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have… — Juan Manuel Santos
The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago. — Silvio Berlusconi
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the… — Mariella Frostrup
We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them… — Lee Kuan Yew
We are not going to allow to a dictator who is sitting on us to determine the means of confrontation against him. We are not… — Arthur Mutambara
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. — Dirk Kempthorne
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere… — Larry Harvey
The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a… — Armin Hofmann
Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation — John Helm
Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands… — Griselda Gambaro
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods — Irving Kristol
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of… — Eben Moglen
The GOPâ€™s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates… — Mike Lofgren
Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and… — Ed Paschke
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. — Jalal Talabani
We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense… — Subcomandante Marcos

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