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“Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent...”
“If a man like that is killed, there is always another to take his place. That is not the important thing. But to act so that no man dares to strike you because he knows you speak the truth, to act ...”
“I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word "nigger" leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person usin...”
“The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are to...”
“How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.”
“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain -- appreciated "the glad tidings of great joy." For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. The...”
“I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them...”
“All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.”
“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
“For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed myself be swept away by it, to drown in it - the way I'd done so many times before. The way I would...”
“Of course, Im aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their ...”
“I mostly hope you think I miss you and in the end you hope you'll get me, but that's fantasy, untrue as you, and bitter as the hope you left me.”
“It's better to have loved and lost than never love at all - I doubt that sorry statement every time I fall.”
“Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.”
“After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had laboured so much up...”
“One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.”
“As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.”
“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
“He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did not understand the fratricidal hatred between the sons of Araby and Israel, and because he loved a...”
“It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.”
