“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.”

“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”

“They see in the population’s hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged.”

“To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.”

“Reverence reduces hostility.”