Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Space was a hostile environment that required a sharp and cunning mind over prestige any day. That, and a shit load of… — Kiersten Fay Copy Share Image
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Christians should not be hostile, they should not hate, they should not judge, and they should not condemn. But they also must… — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
“My parents were at a total loss. I was going nowhere and I was irritable and hostile.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image
If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and… — John Bargh Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That… — Jamey Johnson Copy Share Image
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
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