"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world"
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The phrasing is also strategically totalizing. “Against anybody in this world” expands the promise to cosmic scale, a rhetorical overreach that reads as sincerity while functioning as insulation. If critics accuse him of spite, he’s already told you he’s constitutionally incapable of it. The listener is nudged to interpret conflict as principle, not malice; disagreement becomes civic duty rather than personal animus.
Context matters here because it’s the sort of line that typically appears after bruising events: a contentious election, a scandal, a legislative fight, a moment when a leader needs to lower the temperature without conceding wrongdoing. It’s reconciliation talk that keeps power intact. By declaring an absence of “ill will,” Campbell signals readiness to work with adversaries while quietly asking the public to stop reading his motives as angry or punitive.
The subtext: judge me by my posture, not my record. It’s emotional self-branding, calibrated for a political culture that prizes “civility” as a substitute for accountability.
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| Topic | Forgiveness |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Campbell, Alex. (2026, January 17). I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-no-ill-will-in-my-heart-against-anybody-in-42460/
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Campbell, Alex. "I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-no-ill-will-in-my-heart-against-anybody-in-42460/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-no-ill-will-in-my-heart-against-anybody-in-42460/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.









