Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
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To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
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Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
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From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
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Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
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Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
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Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Often does hatred hurt itself.
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I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
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The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.
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Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
