Clash Quotes

Freedom rings where opinions clash. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. View quote
Louis Aragon
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. View quote
Polly Toynbee
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. View quote
Amos Oz
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. View quote
Nikolai Berdyaev
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best” American higher criticism. View quote
Camille Paglia
It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! View quote
Patrick Henry
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous. View quote
Boy George
Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them. (Ha-Joon Chang)
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin. View quote
Malcolm X
I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win. View quote
John Pilger
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. View quote
Billy Bragg
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America. View quote
J. F. C. Fuller
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
This is not a clash between civilisations. It is a clash about civilisation. View quote
Tony Blair
What do you see, Captain?” "Two boys with hands locked for a fight. You see how one is light and the other is dark? I see love against death, light against darkness, chaos against order. I see the clash of all opposites under...the sun. I see Prince and myself.” "Which is which?” "I don't know, Mouse. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
From what can "ought" be derived. The most compelling answer is this: ethics must be somehow based on an appreciation of human nature - on a sense of what a human being is or might be, and on what a human being might want to have or want to be. If that is naturalism, then naturalism is no fallacy. No one could seriously deny that ethics is responsive to such facts about human nature. We may just disagree about where to look for the most compelling facts about human nature -n novels, in religious texts, in psychological experiments, in biological or anthropological investigations. The fallacy is not naturalism but, rather, any simple-minded attempt to rush from facts to values. In other words, the fallacy is greedy reductionism of values to facts, rather than reductionism considered more circumspectly, as the attempt to unify our world-view so that out ethical principles don't clash irrationally with the way the world is. (Daniel Dennett)
Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons) View quote
Joseph Delaney
Culture clash is terrific drama. View quote
Ken Follett
I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty. View quote
Ann Wilson
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me. View quote
Dominique de Villepin