Hostilities Quotes
41 quotes by 39 authors
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Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
— Peabo Bryson
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for…
— Octavia Butler
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to…
— Thomas Paine
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take…
— Ban Ki-moon
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We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from…
— Landon Pearson
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
— Peter Singer
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
— Michael Parenti
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It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the…
— Bobby Darin
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Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible…
— Tom Standage
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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,…
— M. Scott Peck
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The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw…
— Saul Alinsky
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In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire…
— Billy Bishop
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I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true…
— Robert E. Lee
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.
— Bela Kiraly
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It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a…
— Washington Irving
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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have…
— Immanuel Kant
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It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that…
— Benjamin Spock
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
— Livy
Who Wrote These Hostilities Quotes
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