We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and the bastards always talk about the purity of the race. 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. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the primordial passion. It is love that’s abnormal. Umberto Eco
I have decided to stick to love... Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Unknown
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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Mahatma Gandhi
The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!
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Amish Tripathi
Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.
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Hannah Harrington
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Euripides
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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not...
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.
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