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  • Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

  • Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

    George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9
  • National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

    Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.112
  • BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

    Baby   Sex   Age  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社
  • There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
  • My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

  • It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

    "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.
  • There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

    Thinking   Land   Two  
    Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.144, The Overlook Press
  • Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

    Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, NYU Press
  • Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.

  • Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

    Twitter post from Aug 13, 2017
  • Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

    Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”
  • Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

  • Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

    Love   Hate   Views  
  • That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

    Church   Belief   Century  
    Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.71, Penguin UK
  • ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社
  • You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

    Jobs   Frustration   Gun  
  • The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

    Hate   Hatred   Feelings  
    "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1951.
  • Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

    Love   Cat   Men  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47
  • The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

    Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1”, p.372
  • For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.

    Men   Intellectual   May  
    Walter Benjamin (2006). “On Hashish”, p.21, Harvard University Press
  • We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  • My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press
  • If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

    People   Want   Reactions  
  • Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

    Suicide   Fire   May  
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.64
  • Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

    Women   Doubt   Able  
    Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press
  • The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

    Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
  • do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

    Friendship   Two   Soul  
  • A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

  • Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

    Weed   Spring   Flower  
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