Top 30 Antithesis Quotes

The whole ‘American Idol’ way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I’d even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

TV’s not the problem, and I’m tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV’s getting in your way of writing a book, then you don’t want to write a book bad enough.

Everything contains its antithesis.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too – hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln’s entreaty to ‘the better angels of our nature.’ Everyone in Congress – and, by extension, the nation – has been sullied by the spite and vitriol she has injected into the political sphere.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace – something that attacks you. So you don’t go to the desert for peace.

Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from the tablets and into the bricks.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government, unlike me, fiercely opposed.

My life has been the antithesis of that book ‘The Secret’. I’ve always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I’m a worrier and a perfectionist, and live television is like the antithesis of that, so it’s been an interesting sort of push-pull of what I forgive myself for and what I don’t.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.’s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is ‘Oh, it’s so fake,’ but it’s the antithesis!

I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia – the antithesis of Sean’s hippie-artist-peacenik background.

Al-Qa’ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

I think trying to be hot is the antithesis of trying to be funny. If you’re aware of what you look like, or you’re trying to… you can’t be truly funny.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Christie led the way – with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today’s voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he’s the anti-Romney.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it’s time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.

Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Horror isn’t only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it’s not horror.