Hostile Quotes - Page 18

• Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

  Ed Miliband

  Thinking, Mind Your Own Business, Sake

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Class

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

  Allan Bloom

  Keys, Self, Enlightenment

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Society, May, Faces

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• The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

  Tacitus

  Ocean, Our World, Race

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.2, Charles River Editors

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• The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Passion, Mob Rule, Anarchy

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Attitude, Men, Judging

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed

  Shantideva

  Freedom, Mind, Chance

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• The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, America, Borders

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• Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Truth, Hero, Expression

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• A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Wife

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  Quentin Crisp

  America, People, England

  1985 In The Guardian, 23 Oct.

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• Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

  Bertrand Russell

  Purpose, Causes, Mathematics

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.499, Routledge

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• We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.

  Thucydides

  Country, Land, Cities

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

  Norbert Wiener

  Punishment, Tragedy, World

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.184, Da Capo Press

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• Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted.

  Woody Allen

  Nice, Would Be, Impossible

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Degrees, Intimacy

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Play, Sound, Might

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• I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

  Melody Beattie

  Hurt, People, Defense

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.4, Hazelden Publishing

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• Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Country, Ebola, People

  "World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "Word of Mouth" with Renee Montagne, nhpr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• But even technical work filled with formulas can be valuable and important. Einstein offered a lot of technical work on quantum physics, which mostly eludes me. I refer to his work, and I have studied it, but I am not a physicist. But look at Einstein's simple statement that the most important decision you ever will make is the decision whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.

  Wayne Dyer

  Simple, Decision, Friendly

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

  Newt Gingrich

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• Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them."

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Father, Men

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• Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

  Donald Trump

  People, Atmosphere, Staying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

  Ted Cruz

  Reality, Media, Conservative

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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