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“Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.”

People Feelings Certain Individual Causes Enemy Groups Media Type Guilt Dues Abnormal

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.”

Certain Enemy Hatred Envy

Author:Evan Esar

“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”

People Ifs Should Desire Certain Suffering Wish Enemy Alive Seeing Slave Prosperity Feds Humankind

Author:Bertrand Russell

“To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.”

Giving Action Certain Fall Enemy Virtue Seeing Satisfaction Revenge Scales Contentment Behalf Benevolent Humiliated Concessions

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.”

Men Way Certain Enemy Esteem

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government.”

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.”

Spirit Certain Animal Enemy Safety Ill Strikes Spite Excess Caution Deliberate Good Humor Animal Spirits

Author:William Hazlitt

“The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all.”

Humans War Certain Nations Sex Enemy Bears Battle Authority Species Males Formulas Inferiors Justified Accompany Resemblance Imposition Rationale Battle Of The Sexes

Book:Sexual Politics

Source: Sexual Politics

“Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.”

Persons Certain Lines Enemy Type Cold Calculating

Author:Walter Schellenberg