Top 387 Hostility Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.
It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.
There's always a fine line that divides hostility from neutrality, and I don't want to pass that line.
If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.
If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
The greatest level of hostility and venom, really, is between parties closest to each other on the political spectrum.
I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that hasn't happened.
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.
If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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.
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.
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.
Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
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.
I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.
If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone reacts with displeasure, confusion, hostility, well, that is not pleasant, and can often be upsetting.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.
Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.
Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.
Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.
The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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.
Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.
You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.
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.
Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.
I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
