Hostility Quotes
242 quotes by 204 authors
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's…
— Chinua Achebe
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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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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in…
— Albert Camus
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
— Anton Chekhov
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade…
— Germaine Greer
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Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.…
— Irene Nemirovsky
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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the…
— Humphry Davy
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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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The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility…
— Jim Gerlach
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Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.
— Lance Secretan
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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility…
— Ronald Reagan
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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Who Wrote These Hostility Quotes
204 authors contributed a total of 242 Hostility Quotes, led by these top contributors: