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
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
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Anyone that knows me will tell you that any time we're going somewhere, if there's a US flag, they'll always point it… — Donte Stallworth Copy Share Image
“Obviously as a writer you have to reflect on why your work is provoking such hostility, because all you want to do… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker 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
I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Asking isn't what I had in mind,” Sicarius said. “Yes, I can see that.” Amaranthe planted a hand on his chest, fingers… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“Everybody was pissed off in those days, but there were no socially acceptable outlets for hostility. "Hostile" was a word you heard… — Albert Goldman Copy Share Image
When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
“And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed… — Olivia Sudjic 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
The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
“one moment they may seem calm and serene and deeply in love with their partner, but at the next, they may be… — Ross Rosenberg 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
Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Armenia categorically rejects the resumption of military hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh as an option. In case Azerbaijan resorts to military aggression, Armenia… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Children learn what they live. If a child lives with criticism... he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility... he learns… — Dorothy Nolte Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This is how we are being governed right now, people. Six conservative justices. They're just doing what they want. And what they… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and… — Colin Archibald Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image