Confrontation Quotes

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. (David Cronenberg)
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. View quote
Edward Said
There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack. View quote
Sean Connery
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience. View quote
Maurice Allais
Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me. View quote
Marcel Marceau
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be. View quote
Frantz Fanon
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins. View quote
George W. Bush
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war. (David Harvey)
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors. View quote
Carl Sagan
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. View quote
Bashar al-Assad
Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless. View quote
Sergei Akhromeyev
If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto. View quote
Martin Heidegger
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation. View quote
Keith Haring
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. David Bowie. View quote
David Bowie
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 capitals, raw materials, technicians and cheap labor, and to which they export new capitals - instruments of domination - arms and all kinds of articles; thus submerging us in an absolute dependence. View quote
Che Guevara
We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe. View quote
Leonid Brezhnev
Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of "holy alliance." (Vladimir Putin)
I'm interested in conflict and confrontation. View quote
Thom Mayne
I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway. View quote
David Levithan
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. View quote
Alva Myrdal
We did not seek ideological confrontation. View quote
John Hume