Hostile Quotes

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Age, Country, Liberty

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington

Government, Liberty, Republican

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer

Live, Same, Loving

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, Liberty, Social

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan

Universe, Seems, Nor

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

Happiness, Friendly, Rather

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

Four, Thousand, Newspapers

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

Times, Started, Policy

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
George W. Bush

Cannot, Nation, Hold

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore Vidal

American, Until, Anyone

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham

Time, Friendly, Night

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, Hard, Rich

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Aeschylus

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

Beauty, Nature, Wonder

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
John Podhoretz

Power, Successful, Live

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
Ice Cube

Life, Work, Beautiful

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
Ralph Chaplin

Men, Respect, Working

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Russell Baker

Poetry, Lonely, Between

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Today, Different

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
Theresa May

Here, Create, Aim

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
Jack Kemp

Business, Understand, Why

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler

Life, Learning, Minds

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
Carlos Ghosn

Value, Carry, Moves

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith

Off, Dead, Romance

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.
Jane Goodall

Human, Learn, Both

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
Norman Mailer

Women, Men, Poor

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.
John Boehner

Nation, Since, Lived

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
Laura Schlessinger

Work, Women, Men

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom

Enemy, Nothing, Wealth

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
Muqtada al Sadr

Change, Power, Islam

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