Benevolence is tepid . . .

Benevolence is tepid; hatred and its complement, vanity, are stinging hot and high flavored. That is why National Socialism is so much easier to popularize than the League of Nations. It will be the task of the psychological engineers to see how far cooperation can be combined with socially harmless, but psychologically rewarding, competitions and rivalry. . . . Rivalry in sports. Rivalry---but this, alas, would probably arouse not the smallest popular enthusiasm---in scientific and artistic achievement. The substitutes for militant nationalism may be almost as exciting as the things they replace. Thus, at Constantinople, feeling at the chariot races ran so high that Greens and Blues were ready to kill one another by the thousand. It is clear that the homeopathic remedy for militant nationalism can be made as fatal as the disease.

Aldous Huxley, Beyond the Mexique Bay. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934), 91-92.