Hostility Quotes

Hostility Quote of the day

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

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.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.