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Quotes About Hostility

In the subtle tyranny of that moment beat the pulse of Cesar's neighborhood—the bid for attention, the undercurrent of hostility for so many small needs ignored and unmet, the pleasure of holding power, camouflaged in teasing, the rush of love.
~ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.
~ Morgan Ortagus
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
~ Plato
Society is thus bound to remain divided into two hostile camps, and in such conditions freedom is a vain word.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching.
~ Paul Dano
I hate bacon. And sunshine, as my friends like to point out.
~ Aubrey Peeples
The wise never harbor hostility. The good man forgets the faults of others; the best man forgives them, even when he himself has borne their brunt. In the purity of his heart, the virtuous man only sees the virtue in everyone else.
~ Ramesh Menon
God clearly called me into the preaching and teaching ministry, principally in hostile arenas. An odd call for a shy individual, I would think! But God does it his way.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Life requires some understanding, and the struggles we face need explanatory power. It is when we get the two subjects and their reasons for existence mixed up that we end up with verbal attacks and needless hostility.
~ Ravi Zacharias
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
~ Joseph Conrad
Mr Verloc felt the latent unfriendliness of all out of doors with a force approaching to positive bodily anguish.
~ Joseph Conrad
Resentment, hatred, ill will, and hostility are behind a host of maladies.
~ Joseph Murphy
If a man begins to brood or grows morbid against his wife because of things she said or did, he is, psychologically speaking, committing adultery. One of the meanings of adultery is idolatry, which means giving attention to or uniting mentally with that which is negative and destructive. When a man is silently resenting his wife and is full of hostility toward her, he is unfaithful. He is not faithful to his marriage vows, which are to love, cherish, and honor her all the days of his life.
~ Joseph Murphy
The alcoholic has a deep sense of inferiority, inadequacy, defeat and frustration, usually accompanied by a deep inner hostility. He has countless alibis as to his reason for drinking, but the sole reason is in his thought life.
~ Joseph Murphy
resentment, condemnation of others, remorse, and hostility are behind a host of maladies ranging from arthritis to cardiac disease.
~ Joseph Murphy
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.
~ Judith Martin
You're an asshole, you know that? Stick your finger up your butt and take a whiff. That's you. A piece of shit!
~ Judy Blume
It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.
~ Washington Irving
loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
~ Werner Herzog
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.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Y cuando callan los reconozco por su silencio inquieto y hostil, tan distinto del silencio atento de alumno que capta. El zoquete oscila perpetuamente entre la excusa de ser y el deseo de existir a pesar de todo, de encontrar su lugar, imponerlo incluso, aunque sea con violencia, que es su antidepresivo.
~ Daniel Pennac
Foulk and friends suggest the toxic effect of rudeness - some actually call it a neurotoxin - lasts an entire week. It can spread like wildfire around a contained office, leading to general hostility, lower morale, poorer performance, and worse coffee. ... In fact, it's been shown that even when the rude behavior is mild at best, it impairs a person's basic ability to think. F You Very Much pages 23-24
~ Danny Wallace
by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
~ James Clavell