Antagonism Quote by Harri Holkeri

“My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.” quote by Harri Holkeri — Download Open image

“My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.”

Harri Holkeri

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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned;…

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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the…

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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living…

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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

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We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

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Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most…

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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern…

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When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

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No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

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History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a…

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A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

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Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us,…

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Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

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“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn…

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It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a…

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