Hostile Quotes - Page 15

• And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

  Ariel Sharon

  Country, Israel, Years

  "Transcript: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. September 19, 2005.

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• The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Islands, Achievement, World

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Existentialism, Benign

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 250, 1980.

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• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Dark, Two

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• Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Marriage, Engineering, Judging

  "To Protect Marriage" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. July 22, 2004.

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• It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

  Michael Nesmith

  People, Culture, Force

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

  Liam Neeson

  Wonder, Unpredictable

  "Liam Neeson Only Wrestles Real Wolves" by Mike Banka, www.elle.com. January 27, 2012.

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• In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

  Robert Mugabe

  East, Looks, West

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• There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

  Annie Besant

  Christianity, Claims, Exclusive

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• One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

  John Berger

  Home, Men, Dwelling Place

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.78, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

  Mao Zedong

  Communication, Mean, Army

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• Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

  Sun Tzu

  Ignorance, Army, Years

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doubt, Elements, Next

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.

  Xavi

  Real, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

  David Shapiro

  Rights, People, Enemy

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• All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hurt, Real, Men

  Letter to William McKinley. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, December 27, 1892.

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• The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Elements, May

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Believe, Organization, People

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Paid

  Aeschylus, Christopher Collard (2003). “Oresteia”, p.60, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Islands, Choices, Done

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.

  Betty Williams

  Hard Work, Soul, World

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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