Hostility Quotes - Page 6

• I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage

  Michael Richards

  Country, Couple, Force Fields

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• Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.

  Runoko Rashidi

  White, Hatred, Obstacles

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• 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

  Feminist, Prejudice, Discrimination

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  Will Durant

  Religious, Father, House

  "Story of Philosophy".

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• At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

  Marcel Proust

  Heart, Friendly, Fit

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1490, Jester House Publishing

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• It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

  Washington Irving

  War, Two Nations, Ill Will

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.54, Penguin

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• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

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• 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

  Religious, Neutrality, Constitution

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• No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Impossible, Kind

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• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  Karl Abraham

  Patient, Affection, Violent

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.62, Karnac Books

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• One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Science, Facts

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• MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Responsibility, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• Anyone that knows me will tell you that any time we're going somewhere, if there's a US flag, they'll always point it out because they know I love it. Just how our whole country started and just the migration of Europeans to this country, all of that, just the history of everything has fascinated me, but my biggest thing is I want people to understand that when there are hostilities between nations there's always two sides.

  Donte Stallworth

  Country, People, Know Me

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• RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Digging, Purpose, Truce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

  Ishmael Reed

  Careers, Perfect, Black

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Hatred, Depth, Lambs

  C.J. Mahaney (2011). “Christ Our Mediator: Finding Passion at the Cross”, p.66, Multnomah

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• In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Age, Degrees

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• I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.

  Janet Mock

  Real, Believe, Empowering

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Home, Unique, Population

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• The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Mean, Curiosity

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• Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Kindness, Sorrow, Doe

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• The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Dream, Passion

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• Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.65, Image

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• Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being

  Jim Perrin

  Loss, Men, Climbing

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