Hostility Quotes

242 quotes by 204 authors

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
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody. — Peabo Bryson
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
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
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. — Anton Chekhov
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
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
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
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
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
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
Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. — Lance Secretan
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
I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends. — Malcolm Bradbury
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
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.
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
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
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
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

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