A Quote by Christopher Hitchens

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
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April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

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

Francis Schaeffer

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

Mike Krzyzewski

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anthony de Mello

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

Noam Chomsky

There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.

Chrysippus

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

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

Socrates

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

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

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Gary L. Francione

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

Norbert Wiener

For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

Elizabeth I

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