quotations about hate
The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Stride Toward Freedom
In all our hating there is a vast amount of egotism. If we could forget ourselves we should instantly forget our hating. We know of people who have done others injustice and who are consequently hated by those people. But we don't necessarily hate them or feel any resentment. It is only when the injury becomes our injury that we subject ourselves to torment. For this reason alone we ought to see what a small personal thing hate is and what an unwise indulgence.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
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
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
DAVID MITCHELL
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Hatred comes with a persistency worthy of a better cause, and clamors for possession of the citadel of the soul.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
Hate is like a swordfish,
working through water invisibly
and then you see it coming
with blood along its blade,
but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDA
Autumn Testament
Take care that no one hate you justly.
SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes hate is the only real thing in the world. You can stop loving someone, but hate seems to go on forever. People respect hate. It speaks, it vibrates.
WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE
Bang Bang, You're Dead
Hate is like water in a dry gulch. The longer it runs, the deeper it digs.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Hatred is the anger of the weak.
ALPHONSE DAUDET
Lettres de mon Moulin
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Scarlet Letter
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
1957
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
WILLIAM F. DEVAULT
"idol of Clay"
If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master