Agonism Quotes

#1. Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

Simon Critchley

#2. Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

Kim Wilkins

#3. I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

Gordon Getty

#4. God doesn't give a man anything more precious than a good woman.

Alice Randall

#5. Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

Ben Shapiro

#6. However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

Robert Peel

#7. I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

Kevin Gates

#8. BONN: I thought fatherhood was hard, and some people weren't suited for it. But it's not. Being a father, a good one, I mean, is about making a choice.

Bijou Hunter

#9. I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

Padgett Powell

#10. Abraham didn't say, "What do you want?" He didn't say, "Yes?" He answered with a statement: "Here I am." Whatever God needs or wants, Abraham is wholly present for Him, without conditions or reservations or need for explanation.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Gautama Buddha

#12. God generously gave him everything else that's good, but why did he leave out all intelligence?

Ding Ling