Hostile Quotes

• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Inspiration, Power

  Cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

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• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  Socrates

  Clever, Friendly, Ridiculous

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• people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.

  Nancy Mairs

  Fate, People, Half

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Harsh, Amount

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• When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Gossip, Negativity

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• The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Believe, Inspiration

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• God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

  Jefferson Davis

  Unions, Should, Being True

  Jefferson Davis (1859). “Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi: delivered during the summer of 1858”, p.3

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• But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.

  Galileo Galilei

  Errors, Allegiance, Interest

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615". sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

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• This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Fighting, Army

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.227

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• TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Moments

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• Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".

  David Livingstone

  Attitude, Years, People

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• Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.

  Janet Frame

  Dream, Memories, Moving

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

  Jane Alison

  Desire, Female, Phases

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

  Ray Metcalfe

  Energy, Climate, Action

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the Western world, women have no other choice. In India, no. And I'll explain the reason. It's a reason that also has to do with my own case. In India women have never been a hostile competition with men - even in the most distant past, every time a woman emerged as a leader, perhaps as a queen, the people accepted her. As something normal and not exceptional.

  Indira Gandhi

  Queens, Past, Men

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• [Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Jealous, Religion, Liberty

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• Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by those who had no wish to let us live together - on the eve of the Partition. The policy of keeping us divided was always followed by foreigners, even after the Partition. If Indians and Pakistanis had been together...I don't say as confederated countries but as neighboring and friendly countries...like Italy and France, for example ...believe me, both of us would have progressed much further.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Believe, Wish

  Source: sangam.org

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• As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.

  Richard Dawkins

  Philosophical, Fundamentalist Religion, Mind

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• How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

  James Madison

  War, Preparation, Establishment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.187

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• How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

  James Madison

  Revenge, War, Ambition

  "Federalist No. 41. General View of the Powers Conferred by the Constitution" by James Madison, www.congress.gov.

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• The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Party, Believe, Ideas

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• I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.

  Sean Penn

  Photography, Thinking, Disease

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• Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Men, Two Sides

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

  Carl Cohen

  Government, Bored, People

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