Quotes about Hostility

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. Votes: 6

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. Votes: 4

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Votes: 4

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Votes: 4

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. Votes: 4

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. Votes: 4

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Votes: 4

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. Votes: 4

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating. Votes: 4

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! Votes: 4

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. Votes: 4

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged. Votes: 3

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter. Votes: 3

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. Votes: 3

Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace. Votes: 3

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even. Votes: 3

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%. Votes: 3

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history. Votes: 3

There's hostility to lying, and there should be. Votes: 2

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. Votes: 2

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. Votes: 2

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. Votes: 2

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. Votes: 2

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. Votes: 2

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends. Votes: 2

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Votes: 2

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder. Votes: 2

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. Votes: 2

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God. Votes: 2

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Votes: 2

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us. Votes: 2

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. Votes: 2

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. Votes: 2

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. Votes: 2

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. Votes: 2

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles. Votes: 2

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred. Votes: 2

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. Votes: 2

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. Votes: 2

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Votes: 2

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end. Votes: 2

You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel. Votes: 2

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Votes: 2

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. Votes: 2

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. Votes: 2

It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah Palin constituency which does seem to actually be hostile to the New York, Boston, San Francisco educated elite. You know, 'We good plain folks from the middle of the country are just as good as you pointy-headed intellectuals.' Votes: 2

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Votes: 2

The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion. Votes: 2

I have a lot of hostility. Votes: 0

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference. Votes: 0

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion. Votes: 0

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love. Votes: 0

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. Votes: 0

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived. Votes: 0

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem. Votes: 0

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. Votes: 0

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others. Votes: 0

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility. Votes: 0

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. Votes: 0

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. Votes: 0

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Votes: 0

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious. Votes: 0

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. Votes: 0

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. Votes: 0

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny. Votes: 0

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. Votes: 0

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd. Votes: 0

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. Votes: 0

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction. Votes: 0

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. Votes: 0

I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it. Votes: 0

Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute. Votes: 0

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage. Votes: 0

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility. Votes: 0

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. Votes: 0

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. Votes: 0

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option. Votes: 0

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times. Votes: 0

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. Votes: 0

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? Votes: 0

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind. Votes: 0

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. Votes: 0

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others. Votes: 0

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. Votes: 0

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them. Votes: 0

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism. Votes: 0

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. Votes: 0

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility. Votes: 0

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other. Votes: 0

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace. Votes: 0

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. Votes: 0

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility. Votes: 0

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. Votes: 0

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. Votes: 0

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. Votes: 0

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. Votes: 0

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. Votes: 0

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. Votes: 0

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. Votes: 0

Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. Votes: 0

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. Votes: 0

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship. Votes: 0

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. Votes: 0

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Votes: 0

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. Votes: 0

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. Votes: 0

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. Votes: 0

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. Votes: 0

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves. Votes: 0

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith. Votes: 0

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium... Votes: 0

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man. Votes: 0

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. Votes: 0

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. Votes: 0

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it. Votes: 0

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside. Votes: 0

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity. Votes: 0

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. Votes: 0

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. Votes: 0

Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism. Votes: 0

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. Votes: 0

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse. Votes: 0

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. Votes: 0

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force. Votes: 0

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them. Votes: 0

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies. Votes: 0

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility. Votes: 0

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any. Votes: 0

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility. Votes: 0

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. Votes: 0

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it. Votes: 0

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility. Votes: 0

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. Votes: 0

I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?. Votes: 0

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. Votes: 0

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day. Votes: 0

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn. Votes: 0

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. Votes: 0

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude. Votes: 0

The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds. Votes: 0

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. Votes: 0

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall. Votes: 0

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany. Votes: 0

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did. Votes: 0

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force. Votes: 0

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace. Votes: 0

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good. Votes: 0

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood. Votes: 0

The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States. Votes: 0

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. Votes: 0

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility. Votes: 0

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. Votes: 0

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense. Votes: 0

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations. Votes: 0

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed. Votes: 0

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway. Votes: 0

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die. Votes: 0

The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general. Votes: 0

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. Votes: 0

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful. Votes: 0

When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity. Votes: 0

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner. Votes: 0

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. Votes: 0

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment. Votes: 0

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility. Votes: 0

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned. Votes: 0

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men. Votes: 0

The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism. Votes: 0

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. Votes: 0

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind. Votes: 0

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility. Votes: 0

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships. Votes: 0

Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up? Votes: 0

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy. Votes: 0

Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples. Votes: 0