Hostility Quotes · Page 5

“In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”

— Victor Hugo

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

— Robert Bresson

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

— Herman Melville

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

— George Saintsbury

“When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.”

— Bryant McGill

“they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.”

— Melody Beattie

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

— John Keats

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

— Franz Grillparzer

“He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility…

— Ken Follett

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

— Jon Elster

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Barbara Walters

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do…

— Edward Albee

If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria - then…

— Adel al-Jubeir

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in…

— Anais Nin

Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and…

— Gloria Steinem

The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In…

— J.P. Moreland

I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South…

— Robert E. Lee

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid…

— Kyrsten Sinema

In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what…

— Steve Erickson

It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah…

— Richard Dawkins

It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the…

— Benjamin Spock

“This hostility is a poor counterfeit of God’s program of learning discipline. Discipline is the art of teaching children self-control by using…

— Henry Cloud

“As the high mountains are intersected by deep valleys, as puritanism in one age begets infidelity in the next, as in many…

— Anthony Trollope

“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another…

— C.S. Friedman

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat…

— Albert Ellis

“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign…

— Albert Camus

“There was something reassuring about the realness of outright hostility.”

— Santino Hassell

“Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.”

— Kōbō Abe

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Neil Simon

“Night camp wasn't much better. The air was thick with hostility,sideways glances, and accusing stares.”

— Kat Martin

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— Roger Williams

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

— Nachman of Breslov

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

— Erma Bombeck

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

— George Carlin

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

— Myrna Loy

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

— Werner Herzog

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

— Marshall B. Rosenberg