Hostility Quotes
242 quotes by 204 authors
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
— Helen Keller
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The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
— Samuel Johnson
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,…
— Alexander Herzen
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is…
— Colin Archibald Russell
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If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he…
— Ibn Hazm
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Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... I conclude my speech with the slogan that will continue…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute.
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of…
— Gough Whitlam
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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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The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its…
— Bertrand Russell
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I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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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War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to…
— Sean Penn
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I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a…
— Jane Fonda
Who Wrote These Hostility Quotes
204 authors contributed a total of 242 Hostility Quotes, led by these top contributors: