#hostile

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#early #fortunes #grounds #hacker #had

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

#american policy #because #been #change #drawing

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#capable #far #hostile #important #religion

Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something that had survived somehow the advance of humanity had emerged terrifically, betraying a scale of life monstrous and immature. He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men: when the forces of nature were still untamed, the Powers that may have haunted a primeval universe not yet withdrawn. To this day he thinks of what he termed years later in a sermon 'savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.' ("The Wendigo") ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#monster #monstrous #nature #primeval #primeval-man

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#feared #four #hostile #more #newspapers

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

#establishments #form #government #grown #hostile

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

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

— Liam Neeson

#beauty #hostile #nature #unpredictable #wonder

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#church #conclusion #contribution #elements #hostile

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#appreciate #bit #complicated #feel #hostile