Hostility Quotes

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

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

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.

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 hostility.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

I have a lot of hostility.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

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 only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.

Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace.

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.

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.