Hostile Quotes

324 quotes by 277 authors

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all. — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as… — Edmund Burke
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should… — Stanley Baldwin
One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using toxic… — Unknown Author
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… — Saint Augustine
Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how… — Stan Freberg
When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act. — Ellen Goodman
The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality.… — Alberto Villoldo
Life expects of you duties which appear repugnant to you. You mustÂ now know that the most important thing is not duties but what permitsÂ… — Stig Dagerman
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.… — Keith Johnstone
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform. — Andy Hargreaves
I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house… — Tina Modotti
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more… — Moshe Katsav
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty. — George Washington
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of… — Richard M. Weaver
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody… — Philip Slater
Established systems are inherently hostile to change. — Newt Gingrich

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