Vladimir Putin Quotes

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation's history. He's trying to make us afraid of each other.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Unfortunately in this country we now have a demagogue ... one that is reckless with the truth.

Netanyahu is no king, his government sows division and incitement.

Trump bumper sticker is the new Confederate flag. Absolutely. All Donald Trump is doing is making America hate again.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

Hate sells.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

Race is set against race, party against party, religion against religion, neighbor against neighbor, and child against parent

It is in our blood to hate the Turks. However, we hate Bulgarians and Greeks also. The Jews like Turks, but they hate Arabs. The Arabs, in their turn, are not in favor with the Turks. And the level of hatred is rising...

War always begins with the dehumanizing of the enemy through rhetoric