“The passionate love of Right, the burning hate of Wrong.”
Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language
The Diamond Jubilee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”
— Charles Baudelaire, book Les Fleurs du mal
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Bryan Procter (1787–1874) English poet
Touch us gently, Time, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face", George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, Book xvii., The Widow.
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
"The Reaction in Germany" (1842)
Often paraphrased as, "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge"
Context: We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.
Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!
“It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.”
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
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Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), ed. Arna Bontemps
