“By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.” HumansLittlesEnergyHuman BeingsLeaderWorshipHatredDoctrineConcretePreachingSteelOutletsSurplus Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946
“you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.” IfsYearsHumansSoulHateHuman BeingsIdentityCircumstancesRootsHatredPrisonSpreadDrivingDestroyedYour SoulBeing YourselfCampsHystericalWarp Author:Irina Ratushinskaya
“It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.” HumansWarSufferingDiesLosesReligiousHuman BeingsMoralAliveAtheismTerribleIntellectualResourcesHatredDelusionScarceDiversionReligious WarsScarce ResourcesReligious Hatred Author:Sam Harris
“But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk a writer must try to be free of prejudice, meanness of spirit, pettiness, and hatred; strive to be a better human being than the writer normally is, and to do this through concentration on a single word, and then another, and another. This is splendid work, as worthy and demanding as any, and the will and resilience to do it are good for the writer's soul.” KnowsWritingTryingHumansBookSoulHardSpiritHuman BeingsHatredPrejudiceStriveEndureWorthyResilienceGloriousConcentrationDesksSplendidMeannessSingle WordPettiness Author:Andre Dubus