Frans de Waal

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.

Dutch Scientist

Tina Brown

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

American Editor

Wilhelm Reich

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Austrian Psychologist

Octavia E. Butler

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

American Writer

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

American Poet

John Keats

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

English Poet

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.

Canadian Activist

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Swedish Author

John Bolton

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

American Statesman

Peabo Bryson

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

American Musician

Hostility can reflect inner feelings of anger and isn't always outwardly expressed.

Interpersonal Tension

Watch for non-verbal cues like cold stares or rolling eyes as indicators of hostility.

Subtle Signs

Hostility can be felt internally without being shown to others; it's a personal state.

Internal vs. External

Hostility implies active unfriendliness, not just a lack of warmth or friendliness.

Active Opposition

Hostility can vary from mild annoyance to intense anger, depending on context.

Intensity Levels

Hostility signals a deeper conflict than simple disagreement, suggesting a possibility of escalation.

Beyond Disagreement

Hostility can indicate readiness for conflict, not just an unfriendly attitude.

Readiness to Act

 In these ways and more, black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk. On the day of the parade, suffragists assembled to create a powerful exhibition. The surging sections of the procession included international suffragists, artists, performers and business-owners.

The historic women’s...

 INGRID The queen was actually extremely nervous because she could feel the hostility, and actually she heard people say, ooh, about time you've come. You know, they could hear an awful lot of things that the crowds say. And then I think a woman actually gave her a bunch of flowers and said, "Would you

Princess Diana's Funeral...

 hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world. But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered

It's time to reclaim...

 It's hard because righteous indignation, that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive. It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion to people who show us hostility and contempt. The impulse to respond in kind is so tempting,

I grew up in the...

 argue that as people see the world, so they behave. Well, if people see the world in such a way that life sucks, then their behavior will follow automatically from that. It will be despairing hostility. They'll do whatever it takes to survive,

David Logan: Tribal...

 it created some pretty bad problems for hostilities, primarily from the repressed memory therapists, who felt under attack, and by the patients whom they had influenced. I had sometimes armed guards at speeches

How reliable is your...

 I felt helpless, unloved and abandoned. I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement. And I found myself getting deeper and deeper into trouble.

Shaka Senghor: Why your...

 change from that initial full-on aggression when they first met into a much more flirtatious encounter at that time beginning to break down those barriers of hostility

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 For him the world is pointless and moral judgment has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between Meursault and the orderly society he inhabits,

Is life meaningless? And...

 I come from a part of the world that is often associated to violence and hostility but despite my surroundings I decided at a very young age that I