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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. -- Mehmet Oz
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. -- Sigmund Freud
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. -- Albert Schweitzer
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. -- John Keats
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. -- Muhammad Yunus
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. -- Charles Kuralt
Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating. -- Stephen Kinzer
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! -- Anthony de Mello
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. -- Charles Stanley
Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged. -- J. A. Spender
Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter. -- Kate Millett
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. -- Robert Bresson
Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace. -- Barack Obama
Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even. -- Deepak Chopra
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%. -- Charles Colson
Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history. -- Gough Whitlam
There's hostility to lying, and there should be. -- Bob Woodward
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. -- V. S. Naipaul
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. -- William Goldman
I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends. -- Malcolm Bradbury
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder. -- Werner Herzog
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. -- Anton Chekhov
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God. -- R. C. Sproul
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. -- Albert Camus
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. -- Quentin Crisp
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. -- Ronald Reagan
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. -- Rowan Williams
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles. -- Thomas Jefferson
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred. -- Bertrand Russell
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. -- Steven Pinker
Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. -- Shimon Peres
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. -- Arthur Goldberg
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end. -- Karl Marx
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel. -- Wayne Dyer
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. -- Roger Ebert
Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. -- Hermann Hesse
It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah Palin constituency which does seem to actually be hostile to the New York, Boston, San Francisco educated elite. You know, 'We good plain folks from the middle of the country are just as good as you pointy-headed intellectuals.' -- Richard Dawkins
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", and "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have a lot of hostility. -- Jon Stewart
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference. -- Mason Cooley
The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion. -- Robert H. Knight
Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love. -- Tina Brown
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. -- Roy Baumeister
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Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem. -- James Coburn
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. -- Franz Grillparzer
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others. -- Tacitus
I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility. -- Bryan Stevenson
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. -- James Gleick
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. -- Michael Medved
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious. -- Jon Stewart
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. -- Wilhelm Reich
All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny. -- Neil Simon
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. -- Sue Grafton
Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd. -- Eric Thomas
Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration. -- Lance Secretan
You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction. -- Cassandra Clare
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. -- Karl Abraham
I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it. -- Nachman of Breslov
Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute. -- Hassan Nasrallah
I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage. -- Roger Williams
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility. -- Plato
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. -- Robert Menzies
Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option. -- Dalai Lama
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. -- Myrna Loy
there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? -- Cassandra Clare
Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind. -- Cassandra Clare
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. -- George Saintsbury
The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others. -- Nachman of Breslov
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them. -- Helen Keller
If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism. -- Eugen Weber
Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face. -- Dan Savage
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility. -- Don Feder
Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other. -- Runoko Rashidi
If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace. -- Dalai Lama
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility. -- Erma Bombeck
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility. -- Alec Guinness
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. -- George Carlin
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. -- Thomas Jefferson
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. -- Edmund White
Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. -- Gautama Buddha
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged. -- Harsha Bhogle
Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants. -- Tom Gjelten
The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. -- Mathew Staver
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. -- Dan Barker
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship. -- Barbara Walters
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. -- Eknath Easwaran
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. -- Stanley Milgram
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. -- Phyllis Diller
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. -- Marcel Proust
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again. -- Melody Beattie
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. -- Dorothy Thompson
People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves. -- Frederick Lenz
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith. -- Josh McDowell
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium... -- Jon Elster
I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man. -- William Ruckelshaus
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. -- Betty Friedan
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Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it. -- Matt Groening
Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside. -- Gautama Buddha
The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity. -- Tim LaHaye
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. -- Crystal Eastman
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. -- J. K. Bharavi

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