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Quotes About Hostility

But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.
~ Frank Herbert
Îngr?dirile de orice fel sunt cel mai fertil teren pentru cultivarea urii fa?? de tot ce vine din exterior (...). Numai c? recolta este întotdeauna amar?.
~ Frank Herbert
Nous avons été déracinés. C'est pour cela que nous ne sommes pas à notre aise. Et combien il est facile de tuer une plante déracinée. Surtout lorsqu'on la replante dans un milieu hostile. Sommes-nous certains que ce sol soit hostile?
~ Frank Herbert
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
~ Frank McCourt
There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your side. You try lessons that worked with other classes but even that doesn't help and it's because of that chemistry. They know when they have you on the run. They have instincts that detect your frustrations.
~ Frank McCourt
Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.
~ Franz Kafka
Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.
~ Tina Brown
The tea party movement has challenged the GOP to get back on track or risk losing its grip on the right wing. It's reminded Democrats that a slick marketing campaign coupled with paid activism isn't the same as a groundswell of real change, and the reason that Democrats are so hostile towards it is because they've never before encountered it.
~ Dana Loesch
I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn't see a good outcome.
~ Richard Phillips
I was the classic killer. I always played an angry man. I think it was because I used to really be like that - I was hostile. And because I had a good sense of theatrical truth, I used my anger and rebelliousness and just went with it. Anger was just a part of me.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
He is concerned by polls showing that Americans' support for the First Amendment—which guarantees the constitutional right to free expression—is waning, especially among younger Americans, who are increasingly intolerant of dissenting opinion. Grygorenko sees this as a sign that society prefers the false peace of conformity to the tensions of liberty. To grow indifferent, even hostile, to free speech is suicidal for a free people.
~ Rod Dreher
When nonviolence in speech, thought, and action is established, one's aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one's presence. Yoga Sutras
~ Rolf Gates
In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom.
~ Rollo May
Once again Jesus offers hope. The Holy Spirit gives strength to endure the unreasonable hatred and evil in our world and the hostility many have toward Christ. This is especially comforting for those facing persecution.
~ Ronald A. Beers
In many ways, we live in a society that breathes the polluted air of contempt.
~ Ronald J. Sider
The line between hostility and acceptance between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
~ Anais Nin
For jaded people, the only pleasure left is to demolish others.
~ Anais Nin
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
~ Anais Nin
Recent studies at the Public Health Institute in California confirm that hostility and resentment tear down your immune system and double your risk of heart attack, cancer and even diabetes. Bitterness makes you sick!
~ Andrew Matthews
ANIMOSITY  (ANIMO'SITY)   n.s.[animositas, Lat.] Vehemence of hatred; passionate malignity. It implies rather the disposition to break out into outrages, than the outrage itself. They were sure to bring passion
~ Samuel Johnson
Complaints about hostile environments might be necessary in order not to reproduce hostile environments. But complaints about hostile environments are often made in hostile environments.
~ Sara Ahmed
you curdled clot of whores piss
~ Sara Douglass