Hostility Quotes · Page 6

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

— Dalai Lama

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

— Klas Pontus Arnoldson

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

— Karl Abraham

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

— Herman Melville

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

— Ken Keyes Jr

“I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.”

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Wilhelm Reich

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the…

— Richard Dawkins

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of…

— Osama bin Laden

The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang…

— Seishiro Itagaki

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined…

— Tyler Oakley

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a…

— Edward Gibbon

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions…

— Honore de Balzac

The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more…

— Anonymous

Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and…

— Mona Charen

The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they…

— Frank Capra

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics…

— David Limbaugh

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger…

— Edward Albee

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create…

— Jeremy Taylor

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Frederick Lenz

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

— Ambrose Bierce

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

— Tina Brown

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

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Hassan Nasrallah

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

— William Ruckelshaus

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

— Bela Kiraly

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

— Anonymous

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what?…

— Banksy

Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent…

— Paul the Apostle

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

— Muhammad Yunus

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and…

— Bertrand Russell

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

— Rebecca Latimer Felton