#hostility

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ceased #constitute #hostility #means #must

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did. ↗

— George Weinberg

#deal #did #hostility #i #landlord

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility. ↗

— Robert Welch

#days #equal #fact #fiercely #hostility

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

There's hostility to lying, and there should be. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#lying #should

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#agitation #everybody #fight #fundamentally #harder

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affection #certain #day #enormous #every

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#generate #hostility #writer

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#drop #else #everyone #falling #hostility

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#ceaselessly #could #disappointment #doubt #duty