Hostile Quotes

324 quotes by 285 authors

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand… — Frederick Douglass
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.… — Richard Dawkins
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile… — Mikhail Bakunin
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes… — William Shakespeare
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we… — Martin Luther
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood,… — William Buckland
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and… — Richard Dawkins
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent — Joan Holmes
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. — Malcolm X
And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into… — Rajneesh
America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable… — George W. Bush
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some… — Carl Cohen
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it… — Thomas Jefferson
I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for… — Sean Penn
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of… — James Madison
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of… — James Madison
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. — Ludwig von Mises
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend… — Lord Byron

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