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Quotes about Confrontation

We're heading into nut country today.
— John F. Kennedy
They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.
— John Hagee
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
— Ayn Rand
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done
— George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
— George Bernard Shaw
To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from
— George Eliot
You're too late. She's my wife. No, she's your widow. His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.
— Henri Nouwen
Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.
— John Milton
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
— John Owen
When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation
— John Piper