#hostile

The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper like the need to survive. Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become. The family process works towards sealing off the world. Small errors grow heads, fictions proliferate. I tell Murray that ignorance and confusion can’t possibly be the driving forces behind family solidarity. What an idea, what a subversion. He asks me why the strongest family units exist in the least developed societies. Not to know is a weapon of survival, he says. Magic and superstition become entrenched as the powerful orthodoxy of the clan. The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What a heartless theory, I say. But Murray insists it’s true. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#hostile-facts #white-noise #family

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#feared #four #hostile #more #newspapers

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public. ↗

— Morris Dees

#american public #being #carried #changing #continuing

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#began #challenges #create #environment #extremely

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#establishments #form #government #grown #hostile

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#british #captured #controlling #dominated #europe

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#competitive #hostile #in-depth #introduced #journalism

The stratosphere is a hostile place. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#place #stratosphere

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. ↗

— George W. Bush

#cannot #hold #hostile #nation #our

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#defense #embraced #fire #heroes #honor