Social Hostility Quotes

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

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.

Anywhere we go in the States, people know we're from out of town: like, we stick out like sore thumbs. People are like, 'Freaks! Go cut your hair!' and whatever. It's a little weird.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

I came out when I was 15 at school, and I realized I had put myself into a precarious situation. It was a very hostile environment for me, and a lot of kids had it in for me. It was a scary situation. I was very impatient. I wanted to grow up now.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

The Anglo-Irish of the Pale and the native Irish … hate one another as much as any two nations in the world ...