#hostile

The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper like the need to survive. Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become. The family process works towards sealing off the world. Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate. I tell Murray that ignorance and confusion can’t possibly be the driving forces behind family solidarity. What an idea, what a subversion. He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan. The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What a heartless theory, I say. But Murray insists it’s true. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#hostile-facts #white-noise #family

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public. ↗

— Morris Dees

#american public #being #carried #changing #continuing

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#competitive #hostile #in-depth #introduced #journalism

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

#cats #cockroaches #horses #hostile #i

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

— Robert Mugabe

#declared #deliberately #east #hostile #look

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#forever #friendly #friends #history #hostile

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

#few #hostile #learning #leave #life

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

#dwelling #home #hostile #human #language

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

— John Boehner

#cloud #day #extremists #first #governments

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

#first #frontier #honor #hostile #industry