Quotes about Binary Opposition

Necmettin Erbakan

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

Erbakan aid this in a speech made before he became Prime Minister. After he left office, he was tried and convicted for this statement which violated Turkey’s strict ban against incitement of one group against another.

George W. Bush

You are either with us or against us…

Bush was addressing all countries in the wake of the September 11 attack on New York and Washington.

Protagoras

There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

Our word “protagonist” comes from his philosophy. This principle is at the hears of our adversarial legal system and out political system.

John Webster

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

Dejan Stojanovic

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history…. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Ken Wilber

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

Jodi Picoult

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

Taylor Swift

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Stephen Douglas

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

Gloria Steinem

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

Jodi Picoult

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Martin Buber

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.