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Quotes About Hostility

If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you can be friendly about it, and invite everybody in, or you can be angry about it and be hostile and attack the systems that you want to destabilize.
~ Ezra Furman
I never liked Michael, and since he tried to kill me, I like him even less.
~ Richard Kadrey
There's the opposite of love at first sight. There are people walking the earth that the moment you meet them, you want to punch them and keep punching them.
~ Richard Kadrey
Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.
~ Richard Stark
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
~ Richard Wright
You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I've got to kill someone, it might as well be you.
~ Richelle Mead
anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate.
~ Richelle Mead
I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.
~ Roald Dahl
In that August of 1957, however, the cloakroom was often crowded, with senators talking earnestly on sofas and standing in animated little groups, and sometimes the glances between various groups were not comradely at all—sometimes, in fact, they glinted with a barely concealed hostility, and the narrow room simmered with tension, for the main issue before the Senate that summer was civil rights, a proposed law intended to make voting easier for millions of black Americans
~ Robert A. Caro
You, a male, have to have a business meeting with a Feminist who expects all, not sombunall, men to act unfairly or brutally. You try to remain calm and judicious, but her attitude annoys you more and more. Eventually, her hostility keys off your hostility. A prophecy has fulfilled itself: you have proven to her that her view of men as dangerous creatures has just had itself confirmed one more time.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Almost always, these cerebrotonic Third-Circuit types ignore or are hostile to their first and second circuit functions. Playfulness puzzles them (appears silly or eccentric) and emotions both baffle and frighten them.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Many of our Government officials drop amphetamine pep pills at a fantastic rate, especially those who have to jet around the world for conferences every week. They think they're using it only to keep alert, but many of them really have the habit. The American people should seriously consider the extent to which our entire international policy is shaped by people who are chronic users of a drug known to produce paranoia and irrational hostility.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Their war plan is simple: kill everyone they meet. If they are not shooting, they are reloading.
~ Robert Coram
a cop shouted our location to the people on the road. Krantz wasn't holding a gun, but his eyes were on Pike as if he were a down-range target. I expected him to start with our rights, or tell us we were under arrest, or maybe even gloat, but he didn't.
~ Robert Crais
Look," I said, my finger jabbing out to point at him. "I don't like you. Jenks doesn't like you. And Ivy wants to eat you. Start talking.
~ Kim Harrison
You've been nothing but a pain in the ass," she said as she grabbed her purse, just about the only thing she had since we'd kidnapped her. "No wonder Rachel doesn't like you. I don't like you, and I like everyone.
~ Kim Harrison
You go down that canyon and kill a bunch of people doing their jobs, and later other people come along and find the bodies. They'll hate you forever. Even if you do take over Mars someday they'll still hate you, and do anything they can to screw things up. And that's all you will have accomplished, because they'll replace those miners quick as that.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Pareces sentir curiosidad por él." "Es mi enemigo. Es una buena idea aprender sobre él.
~ Kresley Cole
A sheer displeasure to meet you, Munro MacRieve.
~ Kresley Cole
People don't want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.
~ Kyle Mills
There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time. said the Wizard As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it? asked Dorothy.
~ L. Frank Baum
The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.
~ Ayn Rand
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.
~ Mathew Staver