Quotes by Opposites A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn. Arthur Dean giving-up player opposites I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained myself to do the opposite of what's human nature, and that is to recoil from things I don't like. Arthur Jafa ongoing practice opposites Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. Arthur Keith cases christianity opposites It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity. Arthur Kemp diversity goal opposites The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part. Arthur Koestler real self opposites The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. Arthur Schopenhauer wisdom wise opposites For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer opposites writing giving Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion. Arthur Schopenhauer compassion opposites feelings Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. Arundhati Roy nuclear bombs opposites As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom. Arundhati Roy democracy opposites mean The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite. Ashley Madekwe opposites Experience is the opposite of education. Ashly Lorenzana opposites I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles. Ashton Kutcher opposites talking thinking Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. Assata Shakur opposites dream reality We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save. Assata Shakur opposites people years Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care. Audre Lorde stars waiting opposites When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact opposite. Ayelet Waldman swagger daughter opposites Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. Ayn Rand tolerance opposites two Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment. Ayn Rand responsibility opposites two Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins. Ayn Rand gun mind opposites «345678910111213»