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"Why do you hate Miss Steel so much?" Elihu asked | "Why do you hate Miss Steel so much?" Elihu asked Norman under his breath. | ||
Norman under his breath. | |||
"I don't hate her personally, though if she were enough of | "I don't hate her personally, though if she were enough of a person to be worth such a strong emotion I think I easily could. What I hate is what she represents: the willingness of human beings to be reduced to a slick visual package, like a new television set—up-to-the-minute casing, same old works." | ||
a person to be worth such a strong emotion I think I easily | |||
could. What I hate is what she represents: the willingness of | |||
human beings to be reduced to a slick visual package, like a | |||
new television set—up-to-the-minute casing, same old works." | |||
"I hope I can believe that," Elihu said unhappily. | "I hope I can believe that," Elihu said unhappily. | ||
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"Why?" | "Why?" | ||
"People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People | "People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the only ones worth having for your friends." | ||
who manage to hate only in abstracts are the only ones | |||
worth having for your friends." | |||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | |||
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* [[Stand on Zanzibar (nonfiction)]] | |||
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Revision as of 19:25, 24 July 2016
John Brunner (nonfiction) has written extensively about hatred.
From Stand on Zanzibar:
"Why do you hate Miss Steel so much?" Elihu asked Norman under his breath.
"I don't hate her personally, though if she were enough of a person to be worth such a strong emotion I think I easily could. What I hate is what she represents: the willingness of human beings to be reduced to a slick visual package, like a new television set—up-to-the-minute casing, same old works."
"I hope I can believe that," Elihu said unhappily.
"Why?"
"People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the only ones worth having for your friends."