Confrontation Quotes - Page 13

• Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

  Thomas Frank

  Leader, Typical, Campaigns

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• Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

  Corey Flintoff

  Russia, Turkeys, Allies

  "Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

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• What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Party, Thinking, Shoes

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• Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation with India).

  Noam Chomsky

  India, Pakistan, Ifs

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Issues, Long

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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