#hatred

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred". ↗

— David Pietrusza

#logic #motivation #motivational

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#crucifixion #god #hatred #jesus #poor-people

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hatred #priest #religion #religion

Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#race #rape #rape

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #systematic

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. ↗

— Todd Akin

#god #government #hatred #heart #liberalism

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. ↗

— Aeschylus

#burden #burdened #disease #doubles #groans

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#destroy #failed #hated #hatred #immutable

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#always #basis #friendships #hatreds #politics

Reject hatred without hating. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#hatred #reject #without