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Quotes About Hostile

If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
~ Pat Buchanan
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The confinement she feels is spreading, becoming intolerable, because in a hostile mind limitations grow to a maddening degree. Moreover, God had strongly warned, "You shall surely die." But the woman now softens it to ". . . lest you die." Now that her view of the consequences is less alarming, Satan springs on that very point:
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
Among the dozens of hostile articles that have thus far appeared, none has successfully refuted any of its science.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).
~ Karin Slaughter
Gamma was an aggressively terrible cook. She resented recipes. She was openly hostile toward spices. Like a feral cat, she instinctively bristled against any domestication
~ Karin Slaughter
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat.
~ Karl Marx
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.
~ Max Anders
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
~ Camille Paglia
The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.
~ Grover Cleveland
Do not regret the passing of the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.
~ William Langewiesche
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
~ Philip Yancey
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
~ R. C. Sproul
As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.
~ Antoine-Henri Jomini
America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.
~ George W. Bush
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Donald Trump's humor is hostile to a fault.
~ Gene Weingarten
Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.
~ Janette Rallison
The ego perceives itself as a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being, surrounded by other egos which it either sees as a potential threat or which it will attempt to use for its own ends.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional reactive patterns. Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body. For example, an attack thought or a hostile thought will create a buildup of energy in the body that we call anger.
~ Eckhart Tolle
An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.
~ Alexander Hamilton
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
~ George W. Bush
Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow