„Translation: I'm a feminist, but I don't want to push these issues so hard that I create hostilities in society.“

„The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.“

—  Betty Friedan, книга The Feminine Mystique

Источник: The Feminine Mystique

„D. I. Y., D. I. Y., D. I. Y., D. I. Y.
Don't tell me what I will do, 'cos I won't.
Don't tell me to believe in you, 'cos I don't.
Be on your guard, better hostile and hard, don't risk affection;
Like flesh to the bone in the no-go zone,
You're still looking for the Resurrection.
Come up to me with your "What did you say?"“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

And I'll tell you, straight in the eye:
D.I.Y., D.I.Y.
D.I.Y
Song lyrics

„I may not be as unambiguously hostile to capitalism as many people are, but what I don't like about it is the commodification of personal experiences, it turns everyone into actors.“

—  John Gray British philosopher 1948

Quoted in Will Self, "John Gray: Forget everything you know," http://web.archive.org/web/20080403080859/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/john-gray-forget-everything-you-know-641878.html The Independent (2002-09-03)

„Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.“

—  Warren Farrell, книга The Myth of Male Power

Источник: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 297.

„For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being "Christian" or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to "belong" to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else. … In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.“

—  Anne Rice American writer 1941

2 Facebook posts http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=129786343731298&id=66435815451 at 13:41 (28 July 2010) http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=113868381998571&id=66435815451; quoted in "Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being A Christian' " by Jessie Kunhardt in The Huffington Post (29 July 2010) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/anne-rice-i-quit-being-a_n_663915.html

„I am not antagonistic to the rightful claims of capital; I am far from wanting to flourish a hostile flag; but I am of opinion that the masses, too, have rights which should be considered.“

—  Otto von Bismarck German statesman, Chancellor of Germany 1815 - 1898

Speech to the Reichstag (14 June 1882), quoted in W. H. Dawson, Bismarck and State Socialism: An Exposition of the Social and Economic Legislation of Germany since 1870 (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891), p. 32
1880s

„Dialogue and monologue are silenced. Bundled together, men march without Thou and without I, those of the left who want to abolish memory, and those of the right who want to regulate it: hostile and separated hosts, they march into the common abyss.“

—  Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965

Источник: Between Man and Man (1965), p. 33

„While I expected serious, rigorous evaluation of my work, I was totally unprepared for the hostility and contempt shown me by women whom I did not and do not see as enemies. Despite their responses I share with them an ongoing commitment to feminist struggle. To me this does not mean that we must approach feminism from the same perspective. It does mean we have a basis for communication, that our political commitments should lead us to talk and struggle together. Unfortunately it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one another rather than engage in constructive confrontation. Were it not for the overwhelmingly positive responses to the book from black women who felt it compelled them to either re-think or think for the first time about the impact of sexism on our lives and the importance of feminist movement, I might have become terribly disheartened and disillusioned. Thanks to them and many other women and men this book was not written in isolation. … Such encouragement renews my commitment to feminist politics and strengthens my conviction that the value of feminist writing must be determined not only by the way a work is received among feminist activists but by the extent to which it draws women and men who are outside feminist struggle inside.“

—  Bell Hooks, книга Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Acknowledgments https://books.google.com/books?id=ClWvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT8.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)

„Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.“

—  Sigmund Freud Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis 1856 - 1939

„The hostility of society toward homosexuality is only a special case of its general hostility toward the adolescent spirit. In order to undermine the creative efforts of individuals to shape their lives by their own standards of human understanding and morality, society identifies their deviancy in terms of its inadequacies and failures, thereby undermining their access to basic social acceptance in adaptive areas.“

—  Paul Rosenfels American sociologist 1909 - 1985

Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (1971)

„There are writers who exist to confirm people's feelings about themselves and to make them feel comforted or not alone. That's the opposite to what I do. I'm presenting people with unacceptable or hostile characters, and my desire is to make them understood.“

—  Nicola Barker English novelist 1966

Interview in The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2067715,00.html 29 April 2007

„I have thought a little about a telepathic community, and I have decided that it would most likely create either a thoroughly paranoiac or a thoroughly homogeneous unit of individuals. Complete suspicion and hostility in the one instance, total harmony and concord in the other. I do not like either alternative.“

—  Michael Bishop American writer 1945

Источник: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 35)

„If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.“

—  Ralph Ellison American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914 - 1994

"What These Children Are Like" (1963), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 555.

„I'm aware it's now a hostile city [New York City]. I feel I'm in school, actually. There are signs everywhere you don't get in any other city. When you see all the smokers outside a building in New York, I just think the building is full of bad-mannered people who haven't thought, "We'll give them a little room to smoke in."“

—  David Hockney British artist 1937

That's what a reasonable person, a person with good manners, would do.
Interview with Marion Finlay, "Hockney on … politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places," FOREST Online (28 July 2004)
2000s

„Basically, I have two speeds…. Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.“

—  James Patterson American author 1947

Источник: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

„I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.“

—  Werner Herzog German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director 1942

"Grizzly Man" (2006)

„So there was hostility and there was contempt, and there was avoidance To-day, by the verdict of the Court, one of these three situations has disappeared.
I suppose that after having been condemned, I will cease to be called a fool, and for me it is a great advantage.“

—  Louis Riel Canadian politician 1844 - 1885

Address on sentencing (1885)
Контексте: The Court. has done the work for me, and although at first appearance it seems to be against me, I am so confident in the idea which I have had the honor to express yesterday, that I think it is for good and not for my loss. Up to this moment, I have been considered by a certain party as insane, by another party as a criminal, by another party as a man with whom it was doubtful whether to have any intercourse. So there was hostility and there was contempt, and there was avoidance To-day, by the verdict of the Court, one of these three situations has disappeared.
I suppose that after having been condemned, I will cease to be called a fool, and for me it is a great advantage. I consider it as a great advantage. If I have a mission, I say "If " for the sake of those who doubt, but for my part it means "Since," since I have a mission, I cannot fulfil my mission as long as I am looked upon as an insane being-human being, at the moment that I begin to ascend that scale, I begin to succeed.

„My book expresses, I rather say, contempt and hostility to this constant religious intimidation and clerical bullying to which we're being subjected. My book is part of an attempt to arrange and organize a push back against this…whether it's the parties of god destroying Iraqi civil society or bigots in America trying to have pseudo science taught in our schools or a pope who says that aids may be bad…and limbo by the way may have been a mistake, but let's talk about hell in any way…aids isn't as bad as condoms.“

—  Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011

Hannity's America, May 13, 2007 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoHh4_rVdg http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Sean_Hannity_Christopher_Hitchens_Hannity%27s_America_May13%2C_2007?venotify=created
2000s, 2007

„I've always known that I polarise opinion. Some people respond with enthusiasm and affection. In others, I awaken a lot of hostility.“

—  Bob Monkhouse English entertainer 1928 - 2003

Obituary in The Independent http://web.archive.org/web/20100507114758/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bob-monkhouse-549171.html