quotations about hate
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENET
The Blacks
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering.
YODA
The Phantom Menace
I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Guilty Pleasures
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR
You Know You Love Me
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.
TIM LEBBON
Face
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.... when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Nov. 17, 1957
Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself.
RICHARD NIXON
speech, Aug. 9, 1974
A strong hatred [is] the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
REBECCA WEST
The Freewoman, Mar. 7, 1912
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
Hate is like fire; it burns those who hold it.
ALDEN LOVESHADE
Same River Twice
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Cerulean Sins
When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Speaker for the Dead
It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
Hatreds are the chimneys of the mind, serving to carry off the smoke of its pestilent humors.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought