The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.