Hostility Quotes

242 quotes by 204 authors

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the… — Bertrand Russell
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing… — Anais Nin
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one… — Paullina Simons
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing… — Frank Herbert
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill… — Mahatma Gandhi
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. — George Saintsbury
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. — Sun Tzu
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. — Elizabeth Bowen
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they… — Ron Finley
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they… — Frans de Waal
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. — Harsha Bhogle
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if… — Ian Anderson
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive… — Steven Pinker
Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba -… — Stephen Kinzer
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. — Edmund White
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a… — Douglas Hurd
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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