quotations about hate
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
JEAN GENET
The Blacks
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
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
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
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
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
Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.
TIM LEBBON
Face
Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering.
YODA
The Phantom Menace
Hate is like fire; it burns those who hold it.
ALDEN LOVESHADE
Same River Twice
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR
You Know You Love Me
It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
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
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
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
When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims