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Quotes About Hostility

The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man's hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The
~ Unknown
Freud said there's no such thing as a joke—a joke is an expression of veiled hostility.
~ Michael Finkel
Perhaps most dangerously, Cohen claimed that Spinoza created certain negative stereotypes about Judaism and biblical religion that were later to influence Kant, who depended upon Spinoza's research. Spinoza thus stands accused of being the chief "prosecutor" of Judaism before a hostile Gentile world.25
~ Unknown
It was apparent that both the Wazirs and the Mahsuds were building up a large lashkar (a gathering of hostile forces); the numbers were reported as about 1,000 armed men. This was the first occasion that I heard the word 'Jihud' mentioned; there are a number of interpretations given to it; in its simplest form it could be a holy war declared by Muslims on the unbelievers of Islam.
~ Unknown
While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.
~ Michael Wolff
Estoy en el sistema liberal como un lobo en un descampado
~ Michel Houellebecq
Cuando desaparece la sexualidad, lo que aparece es el cuerpo del otro, con su presencia vagamente hostil; los ruidos, los movimientos, los olores; y la presencia misma de ese cuerpo que ya no podemos tocar, ni santificar mediante el contacto, se convierte poco a poco en algo incómodo; desgraciadamente, nada de esto es nuevo.
~ Michel Houellebecq
There is no love lost between us.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind. It is almost immeasurably huge, and most of it is hostilely empty and cold.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent." Chaos
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
El universo no es hostil, pero tampoco es amigable– en palabras de J.H. Holmes–; sencillamente es indiferente.»
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.
~ Mike Carey
There is no one who has no enemy.
~ Unknown
American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
~ Unknown
Unsociability attracts enemies.
~ Unknown
Uno de los efectos de la belleza femenina es que suscita interés, fascinación, sorpresa, consideración... y hostilidad
~ Unknown
Wars are battles of words, not just bullets. From 1861, the Confederacy had the task of demonizing its foe as debased, abnormal, and vile. Southerners had to make themselves feel viscerally superior, and to convince themselves that their very existence depended on the formation of a separate country, free of Yankees.
~ Unknown
No races, few permitted variant alleles. Anything else arouses hostility
~ Nancy Kress
It seems that Peter is saying the goal of apologetics is not just to present better arguments but to exhibit a better character, especially when suffering hostility and opposition.
~ Nancy Pearcey
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one's home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.
~ Neal Ascherson
To dispense with these hatreds, we need not to want them. Unfortunately, people cherish their bigotry, misanthropy and animosities, and they don them like well-worn and well-loved clothes.
~ Neal Asher