A Quote by Louise Bourgeois

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois
French - Artist
December 25, 1911 - May 31, 2010

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Don Hewitt

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

Francis Schaeffer

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

Petina Gappah

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

Hillary Jordan

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

E. L. Konigsburg

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

John Cleese

Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

Francis Schaeffer

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

Francis Schaeffer

Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation).

Noam Chomsky

One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

Kenny Chesney

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

Bill Scott

To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.

T. R. Fehrenbach

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.

Hugo Chavez

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.