Hostility Quotations

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

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.

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.

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

I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against us. But the idea that the Jewish mayor of New York City and the president of the United States supported a mosque at Ground Zero, and took a lot of flak for it, raised their stature in the Muslim world.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

We're seeing the same pattern ... and it's a pattern of hostility to freedom of speech, ... The chaplains have complained, and it's been increasing and more widespread and not only limited to the Air Force.

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

Since 1963, much has changed in America and the world. And much remains the same. The struggle for fairness, equal protection, equal opportunity, self-determination, the struggle to defend the poor and the needy, a fairer distribution of wealth and resources, continues in the face of the hostility of the vested interests, power and domination of the few.

I would say the hostility between the two organizations could be cut with a knife.

I believe the German election result is the worst outcome possible for the euro. Not only is there no clear winner, it will be difficult for either side to form a coalition and there seems to be hostility to the idea of a grand coalition.

Many day laborers believe that avenues for enforcement of labor and employment laws are effectively closed to them. This belief is reinforced by the general climate of hostility that exists toward day laborers in many parts of the country.

Starting Monday, we're going to see this campaign at a new level of negativity and hostility and combat that will make the summer look like a student council election.

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

We do not condone hostility toward these people. We know they're economic refugees.

We continue on both sides to look forward to ways to end the hostility between our two nations and to develop a better relationship,

The decision distorts the First Amendment by exhibiting hostility toward student speech, ... This decision will interject additional confusion into the area of protected religious expression in the schools. The opinion blurs the distinction between government speech and private speech. It is the free speech of the students that has been censored.

There has been no hostility yet, ... We're keeping our fingers crossed.

Women pay more attention to that friendliness vs. hostility quality, and are more concerned when it's out of line than are men. Men are more interested in issues of control in their lives.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

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.

a troubling new allegation which needs to be fully investigated at the time of the hearing. It's already an extremely troubling nomination because of her long-standing hostility to the basic rights of American workers.

The treatment received by Native American students in Winner and throughout the region is completely different than that of their white counterparts. These experiences demonstrate the reasons why Native American children so often fail to reach graduation -- hostility of peers, discrimination of school officials and knee-jerk police involvement.

The Supreme Court's decision to hear this case is a dangerous act of hostility aimed squarely at women's health and safety.

You go, you breathe, and when you come back, whatever hostility has been going on is usually gone.

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban,

There is still a lot of covert and overt hostility toward women

Racial divisions between city and suburb have always been enormous, and they play themselves out in all sorts of ways. Fear on both sides, and the hostility on both sides of that color line, is just deeply ingrained.

Some quarters either on the basis of a suspect premeditated scheme or out of bad faith have used this crime in a despicable manner in order to fan the flames of hostility against Syria and increase accusations against it.

put Israel back into international isolation ... and cause friction with the United States -- our great friend -- and hostility with Europe.

With any emotion you wish to avoid negative emotions such as hatred, shame, blame, regret, resentment, anger, hostility or fear, you must prevent not cure. Control your imagination so that these emotions don't take hold in the first place. Don't focus on the adversity that may lie ahead. Just do what you need to do moment to moment.

We ask the Justice Department and the INS to abide by its own standards and by international human rights standards in the treatment of these detainees. To treat detainees inhumanely is to risk breeding hostility and anger against us where before there may have been none.

This will have a positive effect and will help lessen hostility in the Islamic world to the Americans.

The United States right now is going through a difficult period in the Middle East, where there is a great deal of animosity toward the United States in the streets, ... It's important now for the United States to be doing things to lower the level of hostility in the region, to be in the position to engage elements of the Arab world in a more important dialogue that would engender some respect.

The White House promoted a number of nominees that we believe demonstrated hostility to civil rights, women's rights and to matters of concern to many Americans. We certainly hope the administration will use this opportunity surrounding the Lott controversy to rethink some of its nominees.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

In their haste, perhaps, to take a stand on the class-action question, my colleagues . . . show a new hostility to a long-recognized form of litigation, ... I am concerned that today's opinion sends a message that we, as a court, will employ different standards for cases coming out of the Fifth District on which national attention has been focused in order to reach a desired result.

A peer complimented me on how well I handled a meeting, which turned hostile. I didn't even notice. I had come to expect such hostility and antagonism as the norm. I needed a break and decided to create an environment I wanted to return to each day.

That's definitely number one. The atmosphere, the emotion, the hostility in the arena: It was a fun game.

The message should be: this is what we need to do right now, but continued aggression and hostility on the part of China will clearly provoke more responses by the United States and the sale of the Aegis cruiser is certainly not out of the question in the future.

The international community should not ignore such continued manifestations of Pakistani irresponsibility, loose talk and undiluted hostility towards India and the continued concoction of doomsday theory to justify Pakistan's use of nuclear blackmail.

I hope people become engaged in the dialogue and embrace these issues in such a way that it doesn't generate hostility and fear.

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 remember the hostility of the situation. Nobody likes the horseshoe in that town just because of the way it ended back in 1984. Those are loyal Baltimore fans. They probably hated the fact that the Colts left and then we were back.

And there's more open hostility among them because the competition is so intense.

All this does is create more fear and hostility toward immigrants in our state.

The game is difficult, expensive and requires an extensive time commitment. Facilities are hostile to the newcomer and other participants are hostile to the newcomer. If you're bombarded by hostility in your first year of playing the game, you'll go bowling.

Allen, although a favorite, may have a more serious challenger, in part because of the issues going on. The questions surrounding Iraq, the questions surrounding abortion, the hostility that many Democrats toward President Bush, could all generate high Democratic turnout.

For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking them ... but at the same time, for the larger population, there is a kind of disappointment with law. There was a sense that lawyers were going to bring remedies and justice -- and (they don't), so everybody ends up having a grievance about lawyers.

It's very cheap and the economies of scale are very good, but the hostility it raises and the damage it can do could have an adverse effect. It outweighs the amount of response that you could possibly get.

It might build hostility and anger among groups, too. It has just as much of a chance of doing that.

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

They are so loving. There was never any hostility directed at me, ... Everyone wants to talk to you. When you go to a store to buy something, you have to sit down and chat with the proprietor, have coffee and get to know him before he will let you purchase anything.

It was contentious. You could sense a little bit of hostility but it was a productive meeting. I'm hoping it de-escalated the situation.

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

It will go a long way toward reducing the hostility toward lesbian and gay athletes and coaches that results in harassment and discrimination and negatively affects team unity. It has a lot of really good impact.

There's a really close parallel to France. High unemployment, low family income, inferior education and training, inadequate housing, a great deal of hostility toward the police - we found that the level of hostility in the black sections of these cities was high enough that almost any random spark would set them off.

This is the worst outcome possible for the euro. Not only is there no clear winner, it will be difficult for either side to form a coalition and there seems to be hostility to the idea of a grand coalition. It looks as if it could drag on for weeks if not months and that uncertainty is the worst thing for markets,

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

Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.

I have a lot of hostility.

And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppressions, and there prevail justice and Faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

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

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.

Judge Pickering's record reflects a hostility to civil rights and a vision of the Republican Party that reminds Americans of a painful time in our nation's history, ... Those who lack a strong commitment to our nation's fundamental ideals and principles do not belong in our federal judiciary.

It is my most ardent desire, not only to soften the inevitable calamities of war, but even to introduce on every occasion as great a share of tenderness and humanity, as can possibly be exercised in a state of hostility

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Hate can pardon more than love.

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