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“If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.”

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23. A growing up Jem Finch doesn’t understand why people would want to show hatred and prejudice towards each other. So he sees why Boo Radley would want to stay inside his home to get away from such people.

There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.

– Bob Woodward

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

– Karl Abraham

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

– Sandra Day O’Connor

If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

– V. S. Naipaul

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