Antagonistic Relationships Quotes

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Many men I come across see women in an antagonistic way, and it's always the basis for a bad relationship. What I mean by that is men who come with pre-conceived notions that women are trying to tie them down, or hold them back, or that women are shallow, or that women are only attracted to money, or whatever it is.

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.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.