“The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration.”

Quoted in &quot; The day I met Imelda Marcos http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1000140.stm at BBC News (31 October 2000). <br class="br">Context: When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.

Source: Summerhill (1960), p. 8

Source: Reign Fall

On Boxing (1987)

“A Word,” p. 54
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

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Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003)
Context: If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.

"Love and Its Loveless Counterfeits"
Strictly Personal (1953)
Context: The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.

"Riiko Sakkinen" at riikosakkinen.com