Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

The hazards of politics come not from campaigns and elections, as might be supposed, but rather from the nature of the creature that engages in politics. Ambition, love, jealousy, hate and the many emotions and reactions man is heir to frequently affect the course of nation and world more than principles or circumstances or events.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

People love to hate other people.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, and pride; the desire for food, land, materials, fuels, mastery. The state has our instincts without our restraints.

Our hatred shall be implacable and the war shall be to the death.

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities

Politics is much more dangerous than war, because in war they can only kill you once.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

War is uncertain, precisely because it is political and human.