During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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.