“It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.”
È uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser odiati, senza conoscersi.
Source: The Betrothed (1827; 1842), Ch. 4, p. 44
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È uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser odiati, senza conoscersi.
cap. IV
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Italian poet and novelist 1785–1873Related quotes
In reference to the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an organization which was joined by King, whose church's meeting room was used to hold monthly meetings for the Montgomery chapter the council. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
1950s
Context: Although the Montgomery council never had a large membership, it played an important role. As the only truly interracial group in Montgomery, it served to keep the desperately needed channels of communication open between the races.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. In providing an avenue of communication, the council was fulfilling a necessary condition for better race relations in the South.
Unguarded comment in Leeds while discussing rival devolution bids — "Cameron caught on camera making 'people in Yorkshire hate each other' jibe" Press Association, The Guardian (11 September 2015) http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/11/david-cameron-yorkshire-people-hate-each-other-caught-camera?CMP=fb_gu
2010s, 2015
“People found ever more ingenious ways to hate each other.”
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 1 (p. 12)
“Great people that performed in "Piwnica pod Baranami" often hated each other.”
Vetulani, Jerzy: Mózg trzeba ćwiczyć w każdym wieku, interview. Malopolska.docelu.eu (in Polish).
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose (1898), Book XXII
“If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13.
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Nemesis
