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Quote Left The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. Quote Right
Quote Left The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation. Quote Right
Quote Left I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Quote Right
Quote Left In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love. Quote Right
Quote Left Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. Quote Right
Quote Left In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle. Quote Right
Quote Left The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories. Quote Right
Quote Left To express hostility without consequence is to be an anonymous coward. Quote Right
Quote Left The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics. Quote Right
Quote Left If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. Quote Right
Quote Left Pakistan has adopted cross-border terrorism as an instrument of state policy to further its hostility toward India, Quote Right
Quote Left The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. Quote Right
Quote Left If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Quote Right
Quote Left The clergy believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyrrany known to the mind of man. Quote Right
Quote Left The clergy believe that any portion of power confided to me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against any form of tyranny known to the mind of man. Quote Right
Quote Left Ephesians 2:14: For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility (NIV)

For He is [Himself] our peace (our bond of unity and harmony). He has made us both [Jew and Gentile] one [body], and has broken down (destroyed, abolished) the hostile dividing wall between us (AMP)

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; (KJV)

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Quote Left Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied. Quote Right
Quote Left There is still a lot of covert and overt hostility toward women Quote Right
Quote Left If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility Quote Right
Quote Left I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Quote Right
Quote Left I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. Quote Right
Quote Left He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. Quote Right
Quote Left I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Quote Right
Quote Left A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian... Quote Right
Quote Left I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man Quote Right

Book: Shattered Sighs