Hostility Quotes

• A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Relationship, Karma, Kindness

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Inner Peace, Ifs

  "5 Ways to Peace for Control Freaks" by Kathryn Remati, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2015.

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• 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

  Frustration, Rights, Poverty

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs

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• War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  War, Evil, Use

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• The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

  John Keats

  Feelings, Enemy, Literature

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.47, Рипол Классик

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• Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Eternity, Estrangement

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• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Men

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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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

  Loneliness, Ocean, Fall

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

  Peabo Bryson

  Life, Too Short, Harbors

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• The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Goes On, World, Lips

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• 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

  Spiritual, Heart, Delight

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.7, Image

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• 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

  Practice, Two, Self

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 14, 2015

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• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Men

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

  M. Scott Peck

  Ignorance, Pride, Evil

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House

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• Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, People, Personality

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• The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Light, Darkness, Meaning Of Life

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Too Much, Dread

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Expression, Organization

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• When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Gossip, Negativity

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• Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

  Tina Brown

  Powerful, Unrequited Love, Powerful Women

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• I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Believe, Directors, Common

  "Grizzly Man", 2006.

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• Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

  Herman Melville

  Littles, Should, Suspicious

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1578, Delphi Classics

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