The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Hostility to the Human Rights Act has been present in sections of the Conservative Party since its enactment, and this has grown… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image