A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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.
The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.