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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Principles, Environment, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faces, Force, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.312, Grove Press

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• India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Children, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

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• They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Christian, Angel, Egypt

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• The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wind, Cities, Water

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• When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

  Ed Koch

  Issues, People, Firsts

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• The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
  unwilling serfs

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Building Up, People

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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• We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Character, Purpose, Faces

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (2006). “The Military-Industrial Complex: With an Introduction by Jesse Smith”, p.24, Basementia Publications

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• We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

  Winston Churchill

  Army, Cities, Ashes

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Singing, Needs

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Nuts, Facts

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• A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People, Hatred, Needs

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.60, Race Point Publishing

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• The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

  A. B. Simpson

  New York, Book, Fall

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• Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Land, Iraq

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• God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

  Max Anders

  Blessing, People, Wicked

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• Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.

  Max Anders

  Men, People, Fit

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• [The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

  Edward Gibbon

  Philosophy, Light, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.560, Modern Library

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• 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.

  William O. Douglas

  Believe, Church, Doe

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• It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

  Felix Frankfurter

  People, Democratic, Judiciary

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• Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Errors, Intellectual

  R. C. Sproul (1991). “Following Christ”, Tyndale House Pub

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• When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, War, Home

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• Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Integrity, Humble

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• Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Years, Fellows

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• The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.

  Paul Tsongas

  Party, Believe, Home

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