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“The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.”

People Long Matter Today Remember Space Levels Neighbor Settling Rhetoric Hostility Nigeria Settling Down

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.”

“Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.”

Looks Feelings Envy Hardest Justify Hostile Hostility Pretext

Book:Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

“I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.”

Men Father Married My Best Friend Hostility

Author:William Ruckelshaus

“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.”

“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.”

Men World Trying Children Age Grows Answers Growing Up Goes On Discipline Asking Curiosity University Blow Manage Faculty Invited Hostility Monarchy Parental Yale

Author:Edmund Morgan

“The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.”

People Knows World Hands Together Religion Human Nature Claims Creator Backgrounds Revelations Working Together Cooperation Contrast Science And Religion Hostility

Author:Hermann Bondi

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

World Two War Humor Funny War Of The Worlds Hostility World War Two

Author:Neil Simon

“How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?”

World Hate Force Failing Sky This World Tragic Aviation Predictions Fabulous Petty Hostility Mosaics Provincialism

Author:Juan Trippe

“A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.”

Ifs Knows Kids Dies Left Parent Rap Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Hostility Left Alone

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.”

People Want Needs Feels Mean Children Book Facts Kids Evil Force Cases Nice Happened Strange Horror Down And Tied Hostility Really Mean Fads Omen Exorcist

Author:Stephen King

“There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.”

People Thinking Way Black Race Issues Doubt Elements Majors Election Theme No Doubt American Politics Hostility Multiracial

Author:Al Gore

“When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.”

“It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.”

Ifs World Looks Sometimes Age Law Social Realizing Views Conditions Easier Prejudice Point Of View Psychological Mentality Persist Hostility Deep Down Very Sad

Author:Dacia Maraini

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

Mind Humans Elements Destruction Circles Destructive Human Mind Hostility Aggressiveness

Book:The courage to be happy

Source: The courage to be happy

“To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.”

Men Life Chance Alive Miracle Preserves Midst Hostility

Author:Jeremy Taylor

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

Wife Arguing Hostility

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.”

“Many immigrant groups have faced hostility. The Irish did in their time. Jews did. Italians did - and now, Muslim immigrants.”

Groups Jew Immigrants Hostility

Author:Tom Gjelten

“The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.”

People Ifs Way Audience Laughing Theory Defense Surrender Best Way Hostility

Author:Frank Capra

“Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.”

Wells Long Matter Happens Nations Attitude Enemy Involved Foundation Embrace Jew Mortals Firm Purity Combat Rescue Hostility Advancement Protestantism Mortal Enemies Firm Foundation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.”

Doe Seems Anxiety Good And Bad Hostility Examining

Author:Matt Groening

“The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.”

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Author:Ted Gup

“The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.”

Has Beens States United United States Israel Administration Hostility Disrespect

Author:Adam Hasner

“The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.”

Natural Danger Flying Beast Rivals Hostility Enmity

Author:J. K. Bharavi

“We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.”

World Able Lost Teach Suspicion Hostility

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.”

“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.”

Ifs Wells Connections Meaningful Confusion Upset Pleasant Positively Hostility Often Is Very Mean Displeasure Very Meaningful

Author:Michael Hersch

“Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.”

Helping Love Is Kindness Helping Others Suspicion Hostility

Author:Dalai Lama

“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.”

Jesus Enemy Possibility Refuse Cherish Testament Hostility Harbors New Testament

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.”

Men Has Beens War Poverty Fellows Dues Oppression Torture Mastery Fellow Man Hostility Inadequate Famine Pestilence

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

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

May Hostility Admonish

Author:Plato

“If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Different Would Be Spirit Conflict Bases Believer Realms Followers Exposed Founders Insignificant Hostility Present Day Different Faiths

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.”

Feels Father England Presses Resentment Hostility Reservoirs

Author:Martin Amis

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

Middle Worst Youth Vices Hostility Middle Aged

Author:J. A. Spender

“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.”

Hard Opinion Influence Produce Pops Hostility Nihilism Brainwashed Pedestrians

Book:Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

“There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.”

Source: Totem and Taboo

“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.”

Done Evil Left Easy Conflict Tasks Overcoming Injustice Bitter Legacy Hostility Mistrust Easy Tasks Overcoming Evil

Author:Pope Francis

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

Way Problem Killing Excellent Hostility

Author:James Coburn

“There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide”

Law Used Religious Existence Foundation Suicide Tolerance Commit Aliens Devices Introducing Intolerance Hostility Toleration Prelude

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters”

People Ifs Needs Today Deals Emotion Violence Serious Brother Roots Hatred Agree Embrace Our Society Suspicion Brothers And Sisters Hostility Reducing Disarmament

Author:Dalai Lama

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

Eternity Hostility Estrangement

Author:R. C. Sproul

“When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.”

Morning Battle Resentment Every Morning Hostility Impatience Armor Inadequacy

Book:The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I

Source: The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I

“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.”

Men Natural Practice Violence Sufficient Hostility Indulgence Provocation

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.”

“Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.”

People Years Has Beens Said Country States America Values United Principles United States Deeds Barack United States Of America Hostility

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations.”

Two Night Left President Race Aspect Relation Wings Relief President Obama Smooth Misunderstanding Resorts Hostility Race Relations Worldview Fables Polished Left Wing

Author:Mona Charen

“[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.”

Would Be Nations Causes Fate Effects Events Changed Reader Pages Glory Impression Rome Exhausted Repetition Hostility Persia

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Light Lying Motivation Three Opportunity Four Fool Intellectual Gains Starting Decades Hardship Ministry Preaching Disciple Ridicule Martyr Hostility Renounce Unwavering

Author:J.P. Moreland