Confrontation Quotes - Page 11

• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama's program in Europe, things might be different.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Iran, Europe, Different

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the Iran Accord and get nowhere with this. There might be more US sanctions on Iran. However, the Iranians will not compromise with Trump, and barring a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf, it will be US businesses that will suffer and Trump's frustration level that will go up.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Frustration, Europe, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Grief, Eye, Littles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power. You know, this whole sisterhood, this whole let's go march for women's rights and, you know, just constantly talking about what women look like or what they wear, or making fun of their choices or presuming that they're not as powerful as the men around. This presumptive negativity about women in power I think is very unfortunate, because let's just try to access that and have a conversation about it, rather than a confrontation about it.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Fun, Powerful, Sisterhood

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Two, Effort

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy to be given authorization to go back into Iran instead of leaving all that to their rivals. But the state won't allow it. And it is setting up confrontations right now, very explicitly. Part of the reason is strategic, geo-political, economic, but part of the reason is the mafia complex. They have to be punished for disobeying us.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iran, America, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

  David Brooks

  Character, Self, Views

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

  Daniel Pipes

  Passion, Fighting, Dollars

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• 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 a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Courage, Two

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• 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 asking his approval to be free. I hope Robert Mugabe, a sick and old man, you are listening. We mean business.

  Arthur Mutambara

  Mean, Men, Sick

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• 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 are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Games, Play

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• Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Spring, Soil

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• Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into
  a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what
  is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into
  knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality
  incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Dream, Children, Ignorance

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• The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  People, Police, Gentleman

  "A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement". Book by Cary D. Rostow and Robert D. Davis, 2004.

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Creativity, Mean, Past

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• God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sweet, Long, Independence

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• 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 the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

  Eben Moglen

  War, Law, Patents

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• 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 of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Powerful, Military, War

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• We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

  Che Guevara

  Freedom, Struggle, Responsibility

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Individual, Bigger

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Divorce, Elements

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.

  Michael Leunig

  Father, Imagination, World

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

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