Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate. The chief charm of New England was harshness of contrasts and extremes of sensibility - a cold that froze the blood, and a heat that boiled it - so that the pleasure of hating - one's self if no better victim offered - was not

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Authority is never without hate.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Hindutva’s organisational apparatus is the oldest, the most continuous, and certainly the most multifarious political formation in the world devoted to the service of mobilising hatred.

Politicians, they’re all as bad as each other.

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Political hatreds are always bitter, but none were ever more bitter than those which existed along the border line of Missouri and Kansas during my boyhood in Jackson county in the former state from 1856 to '60.

You had this factionalism all the time.