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Quotes About Hostility

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.
~ Auliq Ice
War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
~ C. E. Montague
Wars and rumours of wars.
~ Matthew
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was a grave thing to make an enemy of the Wulfriths.' (The Vexing)
~ Tamara Leigh
Self help book titled 'How To Hate Other People More Than You Hate Yourself
~ Tao Lin
It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.
~ Bobby Thomson
I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement - specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.
~ David A. Clarke, Jr.
Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
~ Alec Guinness
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
~ Quintus Ennius
My lady, Percival began. He had called her that yesterday, and she had guessed it was some kind of elaborate sarcasm. But this didn't seem like the time for unpleasant jibes. Maybe it was just the way he'd been raised. Cnan wished she could meet Percival's mother. I cannot recommend that you remain in that position, he said, considering that hostile archers, in large numbers, are about to surround you.
~ Neal Stephenson
The evidence all points to the fact that we occupy not a well-mannered clockwork universe, but a destructive, violent, and hostile zoo.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Never do an enemy a small injury.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Sometimes you found yourself in conflict or within an area where there's conflict. Some days you just find yourself in danger. Sometimes these things mould you and that's what I mean about hostile environments.
~ Anthony Yarde
I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.
~ Matt Riddle
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
The attitude of religion to medicine, like the attitude of religion to science, is always necessarily problematic and very often necessarily hostile. A modern believer can say and even believe that his faith is quite compatible with science and medicine, but the awkward fact will always be that both things have a tendency to break religion's monopoly, and have often been fiercely resisted for that reason.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Many people who belong to no church, and who are even hostile to organized faith, profess a belief in God because, in the usual phrase, it gives their life meaning. (This is of course subject to the same grand regress as the creationist argument: just as we have to ask who then created the Creator, so we're bound to ask if God's life has meaning and, if so, from what deity He or She derives it.)
~ Christopher Hitchens
The attitude of religion to medicine, like the attitude of religion to science, is always necessarily problematic and very often necessarily hostile. A modern believer can say and even believe that his faith is quite compatible with science and medicine, but the awkward fact will always be that both have a tendency to break religion's monopoly, and have often been fiercely resisted for that reason.
~ Christopher Hitchens
That's what makes most places utterly impossible - the people. They're so completely hateful. They want everybody to conform to their beastly narrow little way of looking at things. And if one happens not to, one's treated as something unspeakable. And then there's nothing for it but to leave at once.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Spiritual warfare is not about naming territorial spirits, claiming the ground or binding demons. It is all about the gospel. It is to live a gospel life, to preserve gospel unity and to proclaim gospel truth. It is to do this in the face of a hostile world, a deceptive enemy and our own sinful natures. And it is to pray to a sovereign God for gospel opportunities. Advance comes through godliness, unity, proclamation and prayer. Timothy Chester, on Ephesians 621
~ Christopher J. H. Wright
Rum," said Kona. "Too much hostility in dat buzz. Rum come from da cane, and cane come from slavin' the people, and dat oppression all distilled in de bottle and come out a man mean as cat shit on a day.
~ Christopher Moore