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“I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.”

People Thinking World Different Matter School Pain Remember Culture Hurt Accepting One Thing Acceptance Normal Hatred Unusual Handful

Author:Jessie J

“Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

Hate Culture Literature Degrees Hatred Violent Strongest Peculiar Lowest

Book:Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source: Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.”

World Way Feels Writing Culture Audience Policy Poet Hatred Celebrate Officials Staying Mutual Reach Out Sane Odds Alienation Monstrous Inhuman Humanness

Book:Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry

Source: Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry

“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.”

Looks Light Hate Culture Passion Hatred Sweetness Machinery Great Passion

Author:Matthew Arnold

“In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.”

World Humans Problem Hate Humanity Culture Force Views Race Roles Violence Civilization Mass Hatred Passionate Optimistic Primaries Human Race Primitive Psychosis Great Passion

Author:Stefan Zweig