“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness”
England to Ireland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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English poet, born 1858 1858–1935Related quotes
“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 309
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 3, “Raker” (p. 79)
Saddam Hussein Farewell Letter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16368242/ (MSNBC online)
Statement in a farewell letter written to the Iraqi people, written Nov. 5, 2006, released Dec. 27, 2006.
“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.”
Although very commonly attributed to Fields, this is derived from a statement that was actually first said about him by Leo Rosten during a "roast" at the Masquer's Club in Hollywood in 1939, as Rosten explains in his book, The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) "The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."
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Variant: Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad.
"Three Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise"
The Canticle of the Rose (1949)
