The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused…

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…

— Richard Dawkins

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding…

— Thales

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

— Emile M. Cioran

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out…

— Richard Whately

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

— Werner Herzog

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed…

— David Shapiro

It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.

— Glenn Greenwald

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the…

— Adam Hasner

Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to…

— Baron d'Holbach

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper…

— Billy Graham

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

— James Madison

It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is…

— Catherine Ponder

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

— Albert Einstein

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard