WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:31:51 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg antagonism – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07) https://wist.info/watterson-bill/77538/ https://wist.info/watterson-bill/77538/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:49:51 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=77538 CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!

HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.

CALVIN: Enmity sells.

calvin & hobbes 1995-07-07


Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243
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