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Altogether, national hatred is something peculiar. You always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, born Vladimir Jabotinsky
In propaganda the appeal of love is slow and lumbering in comparison with the appeal of hatred. hatred is the piquant sauce which accelerates both the swallowing and digestion of ideas and policies.
Ideas | Love | Wisdom | Propaganda |
War mends but few, and spoils multitudes; it legitimates rapine and authorizes murder; and these crimes must be ministered to by their lesser relatives, by covetousness and anger and pride and revenge, and heats of blood, and wilder liberty, and all the evil that can be supposed to come from or run to such cursed causes of mischief.
Anger | Evil | Liberty | Murder | Pride | Revenge | War | Wisdom |
War. There is no solution for it. There is never a conqueror. the winner generates such hatred that he is ultimately defeated.
Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.
Confidence | Neglect | Sincerity | Wisdom |
Al-Jāḥiẓ, full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī NULL
Man indeed hates the one whom he knows, turns against the one whom he sees, opposes the one whom he resembles, and becomes observant of the faults of those with whom he mingles; the greater the love and intimacy, the greater the hatred and estrangement.
`He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’ – in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.
Will |