The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Interpretation
Intense hatred among groups leads to neglecting the well-being of the state.
In this quote, Thomas B. Macaulay reflects on the destructive consequences of deep-seated animosity between groups. He suggests that when groups harbor violent dislike for each other, they become indifferent to the collective needs and honor of the state, which ultimately undermines societal stability and governance.
In practice
A political speech discussing the importance of unity in a nation.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
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