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

World Literature Fire Hatred Petty Hostility Bandits Squabbles

“When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.”

People Ifs Way Seems Values Forget Virtue Civilization Conscious Mere Islam Aggressive Hostility Invasion Crusades Christendom

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”

“Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.”

Humans Has Beens Two Important Different Fighting Winning Force Human Beings Love Is Poor Affair Breakup Peculiar Tribes Fleeting Hostility Being There Opposing

Author:Irene Nemirovsky

“But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.”

Ifs Men Should Two War Country Government Accepting Worst He Man Experiments Civil War Description Prize Hostility Remarks Two Countries Galvanism

Author:Humphry Davy

“Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.”

Men Mean Government Nations Imagination Liberty Enemy Ambition Mediums Intrigue Hostility Heating Systems Of Government Perfidy

Author:Thomas Paine

“The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.”

World Country States United United States Support Growing Dangerous Danger Weapons Terrorism Our Country Combination Borders Appetite Regimes Gathering Hussein Hostility

Author:Jim Gerlach

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

Team Products Conflict Excellence Our Society Collaboration Consensus Hostility

Book:The Way of the Tiger: Gentle Wisdom for Turbulent Times

Source: The Way of the Tiger: Gentle Wisdom for Turbulent Times

“We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.”

War Law Life Is Our Lives Society Fairs Competition Dues Separation Isolation Mutual Hostility Helpfulness

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

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

Friendship Emotional Ought Negative Hostility Funny Friend Bad Friend

Book:The History Man

Source: The History Man

“The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of the world and great men of the world come out from their studies and their laboratories and their palaces, and cry, "Away with this man! Away with him!" The most bitter hostility which many of the learned men of this day exercise in any direction they exercise against Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour of the world.”

Men World Jesus Christ Study Cry Son Exercise Jesus Christ Bitter Great Men This Day Friday Hostility Palaces Laboratory Saviour Skulls Jerusalem

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”

“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.”

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.”

“A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.”

Thinking Mind Earth Christian Joy Certain Religious Masters Pride Hatred Oneself Noble Senses Cruelty Mortals Hostility

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.”

Fun Serious Capacity Philosophical Certainty Reverence Restraint Ridicule Crave Hostility Stance Playfulness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.”

Men Would Be Desire Humanity Names Powerful Numbers Poverty Rich Greater Conditions Fame Riches Every Man One Man Relative Dependence Hostility Obscurity

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.”

“We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.”

Love May Children Country Natural Attitude Our Children Affection Neighbor Our Country Indifference Mates Forbidden Hostility

Author:W. H. Auden

“The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is not only historically inaccurate, but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability.”

Needs Has Beens Lasts Belief Common Atheism Century Degrees Relation Endure Science And Religion Hostility Grotesque Caricatures Respectability

Author:Colin Archibald Russell

“If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he expects of you, not what you might personally wish to do. If you overstep the mark, you will not deserve thanks, but blame from him and others and you will attract hostility, not friendship.”

Ifs Needs Helping Wisdom Might Wish Deserve Mark Blame Thanks Islamic Initiative Hostility Not Friends

Author:Ibn Hazm

“Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.”

World Years Century Years Ago Relation Affair International China Memorable Australia Regions Quarters Reconciliation Hostility Constructive Australian Bipartisan International Affairs

Author:Gough Whitlam

“Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.”

Should Children Government Moral Violence Youth Conflict Universal Soldier International Former Distress Consensus Hostility Involvement Optional Protocol Armed Conflict Child Soldier

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.”

“Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.”

“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“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.”

States Sexuality Sensuality Radical Symptoms Hostility Supposition

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.”

Two Different Philosophy Political Opinion Mystery Intellectual Standards Economics Tasks Weight Function Customers Preserves Businessman Motto Hostility Popular Opinion

Author:Bertrand de Jouvenel

“Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.”

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.”

Men Giving Enough Character Political Energy Principles Virtue Effects Decided Encounters Hostility Public Life Adverse

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders.”

War Matter Political Order Interest Leader Support Military Policy Budgets Justify Investors Foreign Policy Hostility Great Leader Fever Military Budget

Author:Michael Parenti

“One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.”

People Thinking Believe Littles Reason Culture Sells Arrogance Fraud Lacking Hostility

Author:Sean Penn

“I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.”

Way Trying Looks Done Hurt Regret Gun Intention Photograph Soldier Graves Horrible Planes It Hurts Hostility Aircraft Horrible Things Carrier Posing Aircraft Carriers

Author:Jane Fonda

“It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself”

Space Conflict Anxiety Balls Leaving Flying Leaving Me Hostility Fly Away

Author:Bobby Darin

“Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.”

Humans Dream Life Is Prayer Human Beings Sleep Meditation Poet Highest Angel Active Cells Stillness Our Dreams Hostility Active Life

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“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”

Country Force Nations Audience Fields Couple Rage Trash Hostility Force Fields Hecklers

Author:Michael Richards

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

White Hatred Obstacles Destroying White Supremacy Hostility Supremacy Biggest Obstacles

Author:Runoko Rashidi

“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.”

“You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.”

People Knows Heart Kind Persons Important Sometimes Rooms Behinds Situation Tree Fellows Sticks Welcome Hiding Hostile Hostility Sleeves Unwelcome You Re Welcome

Author:Dorothea Lange

“The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”

Stills Prejudice Feminist Discrimination Destroyed Hostility Erase

Book:Life So Far: A Memoir

Source: Life So Far: A Memoir

“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.”

Way Mind Father House Left Religious Lines Half Cold Evolution England Hot Moved Intellect France Germany Capture Infidelity Hostility Reformation Frenchmen Half Way Infallibility

Author:Will Durant

“In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.”

Ends Individual Nations Class Proportion Exploitation Hostility Antagonism

Book:Karl Marx: A Reader

Source: Karl Marx: A Reader

“If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.”

Ifs Way I Can Real Helping Shows Society Teaching Bears Singing Praise Fruit Defense Desert Show Me Hostility Clinging

Author:Ralph Ellison

“Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.”

“The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.”

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.”

Ifs World Wells Done Action Anxiety Fruit Ill Buddhist This Life Affliction Hostility Here And Now Other Worlds Well Done Ripening

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.”

Giving Pain Lying Winning Birth Losing Ease Hostility Winning And Losing

Author:Gautama Buddha

“With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.”

Heart Hate Cosmos Limitless Hostility Good Will Wise Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'”

World Should Has Beens Earth Nations Results Impossible Prejudice Instruments Expected Construction Hostility Telegraph Maverick

Author:Tom Standage

“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.”

Mean Has Beens Enemy Threat Over It Hostility

Author:Quentin Crisp

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