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Quotes About Hostility

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.
~ Robert H. Knight
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
in practical terms there are surprisingly few differences between Shiite Iran, Sunni Saudi Arabia, and Jewish Israel. All are bureaucratic nation-states, all pursue more or less capitalist policies, all vaccinate kids against polio, and all rely on chemists and physicists to make bombs. There is no such thing as Shiite bureaucracy, Sunni capitalism, or Jewish physics. So how do we make people feel loyal to one human tribe and hostile to another?
~ Yuval Noah Harari
All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be made of it; where success has been gained, boasting follows; where debate exists, there will be outbreaks of hostility.
~ Zhuangzi
There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple.
~ Zoë Heller
Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
A persisting latent structure of hostile beliefs towards Jews as a collectivity manifested in individuals as attitudes, and in culture as myth, ideology, folklore, and imagery, and in actions—social or legal discrimination, political mobilization against Jews, and collective or state violence—which results in and/or is designed to distance, displace, or destroy Jews as Jews.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
I now think a little powder and lead is the best food for them," he concluded. 7
~ Dee Brown
Complaining increases tension and anger. As a display of hostility, it encourages other people to act hostile in return.
~ Deepak Chopra
Pleasnt tilted his head curiously. "Scaramouch? Scaramouch Van Dreg? Is that you?" Scaramouch smiled nastily. "Oh yes. You have fallen into the clutches of your deadliest enemy." "What are you doing here?
~ Derek Landy
I don't know you," Gallow said. "I've just met you. Already I want to hurt you.
~ Derek Landy
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
~ Dan Brown
The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has 'a forgiving disposition' (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Catherine usually sat by me, but to- day she stole nearer to Hareton; and I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility.
~ Emily Bronte
Yaln?z, ihanet ile ÅŸiddet iki ucu sivri oklara benzer; kullananlar? düÅŸmanlar?ndan beter yaralar.
~ Emily Bronte
The third formers were simply bursting with curiosity as to what could be behind the hostility between the cousins, but of course they were far too well-mannered to pry. Lucy
~ Enid Blyton
Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal.
~ Eoin Colfer
There was severe anger. There was severe disappointment. Endless hostility.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
~ Ambrose Bierce
toutes deux farouchement nationalistes et résolument hostiles à la société cosmopolite d'avant : d'un côté, les Frères musulmans, qui bénéficiaient d'un vaste soutien populaire ; de l'autre, les forces armées, au sein desquelles un homme fort allait émerger, le colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser.
~ Amin Maalouf
What up to that point could have been viewed as an internal rebellion within the Church now became a schism in which two rival faiths confronted each other in open hostility.
~ Amir Alexander
Those choices are not just for yourself. There will be the perplexing—and equally painful—task of having to explain to your children why they will not be treated as other Americans: that they will never be altogether accepted, that they will always be regarded warily, if not with suspicion or hostility.
~ Andrew Hacker