“Power and extremism can erect walls of hatred, but cannot win hearts”

“Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.”

“Sometimes hatred can even give unbelievable power to people.”

“Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.”

“It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”