Hostility Quotes · Page 7

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of…

— Josh McDowell

“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

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

— Lance Secretan

“We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— George Saintsbury

“The spiritual experience of expressing a shared hostility can even be confused for the Holy Spirit … because of how it feels.”

— Brian Zahnd

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is…

— Crystal Eastman

“You put up this steel armor around yourself in the form of hostility and disinterest—whichever works to shield you best at the…

— Pauline Creeden

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view…

— Ian Anderson

The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of…

— Jay Sekulow

There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled,…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of…

— Victor Pinchuk

“You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction." "Ah," said Jace blithely, "that might explain…

— Cassandra Clare

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an…

— Anonymous

... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,…

— Marcel Proust

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

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable…

— Thomas Carlyle

Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't…

— Cassandra Clare

The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State…Otherwise the state and religion…

— William O. Douglas

“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow…

— Clarence Darrow

The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Nonviolence means to forego the desire to win and to avoid the defeat of enemies, which always includes their humiliation. The issues…

— Dorothee Soelle

Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... I conclude my speech with the slogan…

— Hassan Nasrallah

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

— Don Feder

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Victor Hugo

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

— Helen Keller

“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

— Stanley Milgram

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only…

— Pope Francis

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

— George Carlin

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

— R. C. Sproul

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

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Nachman of Breslov

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

— Roger Williams

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a…

— David Foster Wallace

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in…

— John Lewis

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

— Kat Martin

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still…

— Betty Friedan