Hostile Quotes

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Donald Trump's humor is hostile to a fault.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.

If America is truly Israels greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

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 world is to be understood.

Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.