Antagonist Quotes - page 2

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest. (Arthur Rankin, Jr.)
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched. View quote
Michelle Forbes
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you. View quote
William Atherton
Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up. View quote
William Devane
Truth is the proper & sufficient antagonist to error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
There should be no compromise here: anti-Semitism is not just one-among ideologies; it is ideology as such kat'exohen. It embodies the zero-level (or the purest form) of ideology, providing its elementary coordinates: social antagonist ("class struggle") is mystified and displaced so that its cause is projected onto the external intruder. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant accommodates itself to the meanest capacities silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens confounded their statesmen struck their orators dumb and at length argued them out of all their liberties. View quote
Joseph Addison
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience. View quote
David Mamet
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy Antagonist than offer him any of thy own for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country. View quote
Henry Fielding
THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious. (David Hume)
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist. View quote
Annie Besant
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party was established in Ripon, Wisconsin. Referred to as the 'GOP' or 'Grand Old Party', it established for one reason, to break the chains of slavery and ensure the unalienable rights endowed by the Creator of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would be for all Americans. The Republican Party was created to achieve individual freedom. Then, as now, the antagonist to the Republican Party has been the Democrats, the party of collective subjugation and individual enslavement, then physical, now economic. View quote
Allen West (politician)
Pinkerton seems busy in his intended history of Scotland; whether it is to be the same with that advertised under the name of Robert Heron, I cannot learn. His treatment of the " Celtic savages" is to be speedily resented in print by the Reverend John Lane Buchanan, nominal author of "Travels in the Western Hebrides," who seems in fact, to be as very a Celt as his antagonist could possibly wish for. I am sorry to find so good a cause in the hands of such an incompetent advocate. View quote
Joseph Ritson