Quotes About Hostility

Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too happy to accept. In hostile hands, they become a pretext for doing nothing, for brushing off real and urgent moral duties in the care of animals.

He was accustomed to hostility; this kind of benevolence was more offensive than hostility.

He was accustomed to hostility; this kind of benevolence was more offensive than hostility. He shrugged; he thought that he would be out of here soon and back in the simple, clean reality of his own office.

she could not pay him the tribute of hostility. He knew that he disliked her violently. But he watched the shape of her mouth, the movements of her lips framing words; he watched the way she crossed her legs, a gesture smooth and exact, like an expensive instrument being folded; and he could not escape the feeling of incredulous admiration he had experienced when he had seen her for the first time.

the hostility of tyrants to imagination and ideas—is as relevant as ever.

But a nation gloats on the hostility of its enemies, whereas Hallie had proved the malevolence of some men we supplied with machine guns. Hallie was a skeleton in the civic closet.

Lonesome! Nothing lonesomer than getting shackled to a bully-man in his house of spite.

We know what we do; the engines that eat us up-this is what science fiction has been saying (among other things) for a long time now. It may be preaching only to the converted, but the objective truth, the inner beast, will not go away and so neither-despite the hostility of culture, the ineptitude of many of its practitioners, the loathing of most of its editors, the corruption of its readers-neither will science fiction.

Stereotypes based on hostile depictions rather than on firsthand experience are bound to be inaccurate. And some stereotypes are accurate only because of self-fulfilling prophecies.

The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.

They'd chase you off as soon as look at you.

Turning his head, Jayfeather glared at Alderheart, almost as if he could see him. "When I get better, I'm going to kill you," he grumbled.

The Dark Forest will win if we do not forgive those cats who were once their allies. Forgiveness is far more powerful than hatred and suspicion. United, we are as strong as we ever were. Divided, we will fall. Remember that the Dark Forest is still out there, ready to prey on our dreams. Hostility and distrust among us will give them more force than they deserve. Do you want that?

Psalm 120 is the psalm of repentance—the one that gets us out of an environment of deceit and hostility and sets us on our way to God. Psalm 121 is the psalm of trust—a demonstration of how faith resists patent-medicine remedies to trials and tribulations and determinedly trusts God to work out his will and "guard you from every evil" in the midst of difficulty

How is it possible to feel nothing but unmitigated spite for so many different kinds of people?

insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Kahe vaenuliku inimgrupi kohtumisel peaks siiski kinni pidama elementaarsetest käitumisreeglitest. Esiteks ei jooda vaenlasega teed. Teiseks ei räägita temaga. Kolmandaks tuleb informatsioon välja pigistada ähvarduste ja vajaduse korral vägivallaga, mitte teega.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

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

Apathy is ascribed to the modest man, Fraud to the devout, Hypocrisy to the pure, Cruelty to the hero, Hostility to the anchorite, Fawning to the courteous man, Arrogance to the majestic, Garrulity to the eloquent, Impotence to the faithful. Does there exist any virtue Which escapes The slander of wicked men?