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“A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.”

People Waiting Goal Interest Lines Common Enemy Break Constant Focused Circles Combination Collectives Sentiments Mixtures Hostility Readiness Rivalry Irritated Involuntary Common Enemy

Author:Lidiya Ginzburg

“But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).”

Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“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.”

Faces Leader Doubt Imagine Duty Disappointment Pursue Palestinian Hostility Port

Author:Shimon Peres

“Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.”

War Form Individual Slavery Hostility

Author:Klas Pontus Arnoldson

“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.”

Facts Minorities Diminish Hostility Disapproval

Author:Leo Rosten

“When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.”

Feels Problem Turns Focus Institutions Threat Tendencies Internals Inward Hostility Slipping Slipping Away

Author:David Brooks

“In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.”

War Ends Left President Lays South Ruins Korea Hostility Korean Uneasy Predecessors South Korea Korean War Armistice Stalemate President Eisenhower

Author:Noah Feldman

“Constant Kindness can accomplish much.”

Source: The Teaching of Reverence for Life

“I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.”

Thinking Way Comedy Healthy Authority Regard Incredibles Reverence Questioning Polite Hostility

Author:Lorne Michaels

“In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.”

World Has Beens War Government Economy War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Strain Hostility Exasperation

Author:C. L. R. James

“The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.”

Form Principles Constitution Institutions Hostility Central Banks Central Banking

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.”

“Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and news is not going to help us [humanity] come to agreements and solve the huge problems we have.”

Helping Problem Humanity Interest Huge News Solutions Notion Solve Agreement Hostility Newsworthy

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.”

World Believe I Believe Interest Conflict Europe Fundamentals East Aggression Asia Propositions Hostility

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

Ifs Knows World Teach Mankind Habit Resources Faults Driven Employment Miserable Boredom Gambling Disposition Hostility Amusing Gaming Ennui

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.”

Ifs Beast Aggression Hostility Menace Wild Beasts

Book:Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

Source: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

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

Should Littles Bigotry Dislike Hostility Suspicious

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.”

Love Made Book Suffering Reading Kindness Happy Chosen Hostility Great Writers

Author:Marcel Proust

“As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.”

Knows World Humans Spirit Desire Force Mark Unity Tolerance Superiors Resolve Humanist Contrast Hostility Evaluate Opposing Manifold

Author:Stefan Zweig

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

Made Character Crowds Hostility Mimicry

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.”

Action Science Mathematics Hostility Equilibrium

Book:Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions

Source: Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions

“There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.”

Mind Christian Religious Doubt Court No Doubt Hostility Systematic Prestige

Author:Robert Bork

“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.”

Doe States Christian Church Religious Constitution Tolerance Separation Hostility Church And State Separation Of Church And State Mandates Accommodations

Book:Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States

Source: Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States

“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%.”

Said Today Christian Religious Numbers Effects Hostility

Author:Charles Colson

“Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be the most tolerant of all. What is it about the Judeo-Christian message that makes it so offensive? Ironically, the Indians may understand the heart of the gospel - that Christ is King, with all that portends - better than many in the 'Christian' West.”

Should Believe Heart May Christian Culture Heaven Christ Religious Kings Messages West Offensive Hostility

Book:Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

“No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.”

Christian Religious Groups Television Traditional Prime Betray Consistently Hostility Portrayal Prime Time

Author:Don Feder

“Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.”

Firsts Government Christian Community Religious My Own Moral Intellectual Lifetime Federal Government Assault Hostility Christian Faith

Author:Jesse Helms

“The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.”

Christian Religious Western Consistency Hostility

Author:Robert H. Knight

“The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.”

Christian Religious Christianity Intellectual Blind Humanist Betray Secular Hostility Dishonesty Educator Removal Intellectual Dishonesty

Book:Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations

Source: Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations

“Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.”

Christian Culture Religious Expression Western Phrases Hostility Disbelief Carter Prevailing Western Culture

Author:Josh McDowell

“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.”

People Christian Religious Powerful Risk Financial Entertainment Disaster Organized Most Powerful Hostility Organized Religion Entertainment Business

Book:Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values

Source: Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values

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

Christian Values Religious Hollywood Peculiar Persistent Positively Hostility Religious Values

Book:Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values

Source: Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values

“The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.”

Long War Christian Values Culture Religious Judgment Standards Ultimate Bases Campaigns Organized Insult Hostility Religious Faith Distortion Popular Culture Organized Religion

Author:Michael Medved

“Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.”

May Has Beens Might Christian Form Religious Views Perspective Battle Essentials Finals Excited Determined Bother Operations Hostility Zeal Inconsistency Residual Mopping Mopping Up

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.”

Ifs States Use Christian Religious Groups Hostility Facility Neutrality

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.”

People Years Believe Christian Individual Grows Community Religious Practice Rights Expression Institutions Passing Passings Squares Steady Honored Hostility Erosion

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”

Christian Values Religious Example Bigotry Classroom Hostility Confined Religious Values

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots.”

Way Mean Use Christian America Political Term Religious Expression Currents Bigotry Accurate Hostility Civics Cleansing Bigots Containment

Author:Jay Sekulow

“The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.”

Christian Religious Tests Court Refuse Supreme Abandon Supreme Court Misunderstanding Hostility Lemons Havoc Convoluted

Author:Mathew Staver

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

Christian Religious Increase Hostility Secularism

Author:Jon Stewart

“I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.”

Thinking Looks Country Christian Religious Christianity Groups Media Products Tendencies Our Country Establishment Mainstream Hostility Fringe

Book:Book burning

Source: Book burning

“At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.”

People Humans Body America Consciousness Anxiety Messages Advertising Agency Staff Hostility Psychologist Beam Sample Advertising Agencies Probing Passiveness High Anxiety

Book:The Hidden Persuaders

Source: The Hidden Persuaders

“It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.”

War Slavery Rose Slave Civil War Hostility Abolition Enigma Latitude

Book:Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

Source: Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions

“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.”

Want Feelings Pity Vain Sensations Hostile Hostility Ascendancy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.”

Ideology Indifference Hostility

Author:Mason Cooley

“The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.”

Giving Has Beens War Enough Government Peace Results Authority Relation International Vain League Anarchy Establishment Conferences Hostility International Relations Decree

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.”

Certain Friendship Dangerous Strange Bounds Former Latter Hostility Enmity Vicissitudes

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.”

Ifs Men Kind Home Would Be Attention Responsibility Generations Son Daughter Details Critical Arise Crush My Son Take Time Hostility My Generation Housework Our Daughter Triviality

Author:Mary Blakely

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

Needs Might Hostility

Author:Nachman of Breslov

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

World Goes On Lips Hostility

Author:Nachman of Breslov