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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.