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• Nature is upheld by antagonism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  War, Struggle, Snakes

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• Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation.

  Heinrich Zschokke

  Evil, Creation

  Heinrich Zschokke (1863). “Meditations on Death and Eternity”, p.374

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• Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Two, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books

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• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, Class

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.568, Best Books on

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• Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

  Theodor Herzl

  Beautiful, Dream, Men

  Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.62, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

  Friedrich Engels

  Sex, Men, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.184, Haymarket Books

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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 dramatically illustrated in the European Union. But other groupings of countries are emerging in East Asia and in South America. Basically, as I said, these politics will be oriented around, in large part, cultural similarities and cultural antagonism.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, America, East

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultural antagonisms and affiliations will play not the only role but a major role.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Play, Focus, Identity

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Commitment, Ties

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Hate, Trying, Remarks

  Ocean Pleasant Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Simple, Order

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Democracies Have, Political, Democracy

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hate, Struggle

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1936).

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

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• War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Soldier, Everyday

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• Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom ... favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Men, Confusion

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• The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Divorce

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• The main thesis of mind-physics holds that consciousness and matter are both manifestations of a more primary entity, and that the processes of manifestation exhibit equivalent invariances for both consciousness and matter. When the program for mind-physics is complete the subject-object dichotomy of modal logic, the polarity of concept-percept, and the antagonism between morality and technology will all come to an end. Then the non-repeatable experiment will be understood to be more primary than the traditional repeatable experiment.

  Paul Laffoley

  Technology, Mind, Matter

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Liberty, Authority, Eternal

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (1970). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.238, University of Chicago Press

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• When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Believe, Army

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• No society of nations, no people within a nation, no family can benefit through mutual aid unless good will exceeds ill will; unless the spirit of cooperation surpasses antagonism; unless we all see and act as though the other man's welfare determines our own welfare.

  Henry Ford II

  Men, Ill Will, People

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• The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance

  Thomas Huxley

  Religious, Ignorance, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1892). “Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions”

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• 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

  Couple, Law, Impossible

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• We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Believe, Nwo, Creating

  "Bush's Talk of 'New World Order': Foreign Policy Tool or Mere Slogan?". The Washington Post, (p. A31), May 26, 1991.

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