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"The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other."
"Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught."
"Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together.""
"Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal."
"Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, severe and silent on the sofa, he knew that he must love her for ever. Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love."
"The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity."
"It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred."
"In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope."
"If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred."
"It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred."
"Hatred can be overcome only by love."
"Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain."
"it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom."
"That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb."
"This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot."
"Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy"
"Hatred is settled anger."
"Politics is simply the organization of hatreds."
"Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population."
"Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy."
