It's depressing to see in such vivid detail how much easier it is to stoke a crowd with hatred than it is to hammer out a peace.
In 656, after the murder of the third caliph, Uthman, and the accession of the fourth, Ali, members of Uthman's Umayyad clan hung Uthman's blood-stained shirt from the pulpit of their mosque in Damascus as a way to stoke the crowd's hatred against Ali and his followers.
When your national candidates repeat the "palling around with terrorists" smear and it enrages the crowds to hatred, you are not only ruining your chances of winning, you are putting country last.
Mr. Pandit has even taken a gentle approach with the Occupy Wall Street crowd's unbridled hatred for his profession.
The fun dies out of the film — in fact, the film itself expires — when Coppola suddenly starts dragging in discussions of the American Revolution and, at the close, a baying crowd with a hatred of chandeliers.
The fun dies out of the film in fact, the film itself expires when Coppola suddenly starts dragging in discussions of the American Revolution and, at the close, a baying crowd with a hatred of chandeliers.
If the strategy was to rally the base, it fell flat with the voters -- an important lesson for members of the "anybody but Bush" crowd, who trust hatred of the president, and not support for John Kerry, to ensure a Democratic victory this year.
Crowds vented their hatred on a giant statue of him.
Isolated sentences heard through the crowd, hints of love, hatred, petulance, envy, rise and die like an endless challenge to one's imagination.
Isolated sentences heard through the crowd, hints of love, hatred, petulance, envy, rise and die like an endless challenge to one's imagination... View Article By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy By Alan Burdick.
