
“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”
On Boxing (1987)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”
On Boxing (1987)
“We cannot love our own people unless we hate those who consciously destroy our kind.”
Race to Extinction
Focus Fourteen
“Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.”
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (1948)
“There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.”
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Context: We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
All this, however, is only true so long as we are concerned solely with attitudes towards other human beings. You might regard the soil as your enemy because it yields reluctantly a niggardly subsistence. You might regard Mother Nature in general as your enemy, and envisage human life as a struggle to get the better of Mother Nature. If men viewed life in this way, cooperation of the whole human race would become easy. And men could easily be brought to view life in this way if schools, newspapers, and politicians devoted themselves to this end. But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected. None of the three, therefore, can do anything towards saving the human race from reciprocal suicide.