quotations about hate
Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
NELSON MANDELA
Autobiography
It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Feb. 28, 1954
I think that hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
foreword, Sweet Bird of Youth
Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.
GLEN COOK
Shadows Linger
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
W.C. FIELDS
The Saturday Review, Jan. 28, 1967
Hatred is nearly always honest; rarely if ever assumed; so much cannot be said for love.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The fiercest fire is hatred.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.
EURIPIDES
Medea
Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
BIBLE
I John 4:20
So we're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you so what could I have done
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
Help me understand
Now you're punching
And you're kicking
And you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fists
DEPECHE MODE
"People are People"
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stranger in a Strange Land
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
SARAH BERNHARDT
My Double Life
Luke! Don't give in to hate. That leads to the Dark Side.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
The Empire Strikes Back
Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Guilty Pleasures
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
HERMANN HESSE
Demian
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice--somewhat contrived, I admit--to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Burnt Offerings