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!
The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they donβt belong.
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
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