Top 33 Antagonism Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Antagonism Quotes from famous people such as Charles Horton Cooley, George Henry Lewes, Corey Taylor, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Gerhard Schroder, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
I’ve always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ ‘Here we are now/Entertain us’ – the irony, the antagonism; that’s always stuck with me.
Corey Taylor
There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It’s fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama’s father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.
Gerhard Schroder
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Chaim Potok
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
E. Stanley Jones
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.
Eugene Jarecki
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
Donna Leon
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Charles Tupper
Don’t organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.
Mark Hanna
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it’s a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
Grace Paley
As industry’s tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor’s leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
Paul Harvey
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Henry Miller
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
Eskinder Nega
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
Alan Greenspan
The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.
Cai Guo-Qiang
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it’s easy to guess where I am in that.
Arundhati Roy
The theme of sisters – of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share – is something that is very close to me.
Miriam Toews
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
Richard Lamm
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman
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
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together – in their sexual relationship.
C. L. R. James
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Leland Stanford
Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.
Rosa Luxemburg
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis de Bernieres
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
Robert Delaunay
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo
The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
Jean Baudrillard