"Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness."
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"National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same."
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"It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad."
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"A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself."
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"lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love."
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"The difference breeds hatred."
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"God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected."
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"But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor."
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"I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred."
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"There is nothing Holy about hatred."
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"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
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"A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love."
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"Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law."
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"Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth."
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"The fiercest fire is hatred."
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"Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love."
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"Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other."
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"But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them."
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"Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women."
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"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."
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