Top 387 Hostility Quotes & Sayings

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I have a lot of hostility.

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace.

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.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

The Obama administration's hostility to school choice programs is well known.

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.

Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that's putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

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

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

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

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

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

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.