Sentence examples for antithetical concepts from inspiring English sources

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

"Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts... Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread".

Therefore, it is worthwhile to try this combined quest for visioning impossible futures and thinking of their consequences by using the questioning mindset of What ifs? Undesirable futures, on its part, is an antithetical concept (to desired futures) that helps us clarify the kind of futures we want by thinking about their opposites.

Charles D Kearns, a professor of behavioral science at Pepperdine University's business school, says assigning companywide happiness to a bureaucrat is antithetical to the concept of workplace happiness.

For too long, says de Waal, scientists have considered culture 'a concept antithetical to nature' and assumed it to be a human-only attribute.

The scientific paradigm shift is altogether antithetical to the concept of faith.

The problem with a portable airbase is that it requires runways, and runways are generally very long and very heavy — in other words, completely antithetical to the concept of "portable".

Unfortunately, there are many presidential candidates who encourage such apathy by either actively promoting aggressive voter suppression efforts or by spewing policy pronouncements that are petty, vindictive, or antithetical to any concept of representative democracy.

Paternalism and coercion are antithetical to the concept of informed consent [ 1, 5].

A paternalistic relation between the physician and the patient is antithetical to the concept of informed consent [ 1].

In 2008, non-negligible numbers of Ron Paul cultists had his 'R[logo]UTIOneatlyo (neatly combining two concepts entirely antithetical to libertarian politics) impressed into their skin.