#ambivalence

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #beginning #faith-based #funding #government

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#ambivalence #been #fascinated #fragmented #i

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#always #ambivalence #celebrity #fame #had

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#ambivalence #corporate #corporate world #family #history

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. ↗

— John Scott

#atrocity #capable #deceit #immense #love

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#confusion #grief #happiness #running

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. ↗

— Alice S. Rossi

#challenging #conventional #dislike #disturbed #does

Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that many of us unconsciously entertain the same feeling about our friends and the members of our family. For there is a curious ambivalence about the human soul: it can love and hate the same object at the same time with almost equal force. Society suspects this. It half realizes that civilization is perpetually menaced because of this primary hostility of men toward one another. Therefore, culture has to summon every possible reinforcement against these aggressive hatreds. Hence the ideal command to love one’s neighbor as oneself. This commandment is the strongest defense against human hatred, and even though it is impossible to fulfill it completely, men cling to it. For they unconsciously realize that if this commandment were to be swept away, the world would be a place of chaos and desolation. ↗

— Joshua Loth Liebman

#love-of-neighbor #change

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#asking #audience #being #characters #coming