#clash

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. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#black and white #clash #conflict #darkness #error

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#been #belongs #between #clash #common

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#clash #content #into #our #own

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#business #came #clash #gigs #going

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bondage #clash #just #pair #pin

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#arab world #between #clash #could #dangerous

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#clash #exacerbate #feeling #forces #inevitable

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. ↗

— Pim Fortuyn

#civilisations #clash #just #now #states

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. ↗

— Paul Harris

#between #clashes #generally #ignorance #intelligence