Quotes and Sayings about Hatred
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Politics, Practice)
"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Happiness, Heart, Burden, Disease, Hatred, Poison, Sorrow)
"Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Love, Being, Hatred, Nothing)
"Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there."
- Joan of Arc
(Related: Love, God, English, France, Hatred, Nothing, Will)
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Love, Peace, Hatred)
"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Hatred, Law, Man)
"Hatred is self-punishment."
- Hosea Ballou
(Related: Hatred, Self)
"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Love, Hatred)
"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred."
- Jacques Barzun
(Related: Hatred, Tolerance)
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Men, Poetry, Progress, Hate, Hatred, Road)
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Soul, Hatred)
"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
- Herbert Beerbohm
(Related: Cynicism, Hatred)
"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Hatred, Woman)
"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now."
- Jeffrey Bernard
(Related: People, Being, Hatred, Kids, Now)
"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
- Annie Besant
(Related: Arguments, Class, Crowds, Hatred, Liberty, Nation, Passion)
"No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Heart, Deep, Hatred, Party, Seduction)
"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Heart, Deep, Hatred, Party, Seduction)
"Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder."
- Steve Blake
(Related: People, Disorder, Hatred, Pretty, Race, Today)
"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: God, Love, Truth, Envy, Hatred, Judges, Satan)
"I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred."
- Sonny Bono
(Related: Hatred)
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
- Johannes Brahms
(Related: Health, Hatred, Jealousy, Rank, Suspicion, Trying)
"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: End, Evil, Hatred, Malice)
"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Death, Desire, Hatred, Passion)
"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Men, Being, Hatred, Spring)
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
- Buddha
(Related: Love, Hatred)
"You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it."
- T-Bone Burnett
(Related: Music, War, Hatred)
"But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War."
- T-Bone Burnett
(Related: War, People, Country, Hatred, Nothing, Past, Songs, Today, Years)
"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
- Augusten Burroughs
(Related: Mother, Father, Abuse, Hatred, Parents, Television)
"Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Love, Hatred, Respect, Self)
"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."
- George Byron
(Related: Love, Men, Haste, Hatred, Leisure, Now, Pleasure)
"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: Life, Forbidden, Hatred, Jealousy, Laws)
"Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: People, Goals, Enemies, Hatred, Man)
"I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Blood, Company, Fact, Fools, Hatred)
"Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Time, Hatred)
"Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred."
- M. Kathleen Casey
(Related: Anger, Consistency, Hatred, May, Temper)
"I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Desire, Emotions, Energy, Hatred, Revenge)
"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
- Edith Cavell
(Related: Patriotism, Bitterness, Hatred)
"Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Men, Aggression, Communism, Hatred, Imprisonment, states, United)
"Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license."
- George Chapman
(Related: Love, Chastity, Extreme, Extremes, Hatred)
"Politics is organized hatred, that is unity."
- John Jay Chapman
(Related: Politics, Hatred, Unity)
"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
- Dave Chappelle
(Related: People)
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Friendship, Love, People, Hatred, Respect)
"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Hatred, World)
"I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time."
- Margaret Cho
(Related: Love, Time, Drugs, Hate, Hatred)
"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
- Deepak Chopra
(Related: Thought, Hatred, Violence, World)
"Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Hatred is inveterate anger."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Anger, Hatred)
"Hatred is settled anger."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Anger, Hatred)
"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Life, Hatred, Living, Man, Mystery)
"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Women, Acting, Hatred, Help, Man, Woman)
"We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction."
- Bainbridge Colby
(Related: Hatred, Voice)
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
- William Congreve
(Related: Love, Hatred, Heaven, Hell, Woman)
"Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Self)
"Hatred observes with more care than love does."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Love, Care, Hatred)
"Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Mother, Hatred)
"To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Court, Disaster, Hatred, Revenge)
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: People, Army, Hatred, World)
"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Blood, Hatred, Will)
"I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred."
- Savitri Devi
(Related: Love, Nature, Hatred, Worship)
"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: God, Hatred, Pretty, Ugly)
"Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people... Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine."
- David Duke
(Related: People, American, Blood, Hatred, Race)
"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
- Will Durant
(Related: Virtue, Hatred, May, Vice)
"Reject hatred without hating."
- Mary Baker Eddy
(Related: Hatred)
"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury."
- George Eliot
(Related: Hatred, Injury, Sense, Will)
"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Mother, Baby, Being, Desire, Hatred)
"I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Fear, Being, Hatred, Understanding)
"As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred."
- Bram Fischer
(Related: Hatred, Majority, Oppression, Will)
"Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused."
- Luke Ford
(Related: Anger, Life, People, Acting, Hatred, Loss)
"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(Related: War, Consequences, Hate, Lies)
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: People, Control, American, Fire, May)
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
- James W. Fulbright
(Related: People, Control, American, Fire, May)
"Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Values, Feeling, Hatred)
"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Ideas, Hatred)
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
- Jean Genet
(Related: American, Country, Deep, Hatred, Man, Plants, Wonder)
"You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Encouraging, Brotherhood, Class, Hatred, Man)
"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Nature, Failure, Hatred)
"I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion."
- Ed Gillespie
(Related: People, American, Hatred, Passion)
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
- Jim Goad
(Related: Body, Hatred)
"My hatred is diamond-hard."
- Jim Goad
(Related: Hatred)
"My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions."
- Jim Goad
(Related: Hatred, Intentions)
"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Envy, Hate, Hatred)
"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Culture, Hatred, Will)
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
- Arthur Golden
(Related: Hatred, Jealousy, Passion)
"Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant."
- Oscar Goodman
(Related: Hatred, Tolerance, Will)
"Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose."
- J. S. Habgood
(Related: Hatred)
"When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Hatred, Ignorance, Nation)
"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Love, Disgust, Hatred, Indifference)
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
(Related: Hatred, Man, Racism, Reason)
"In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient."
- James Hillman
(Related: History, Aggression, Depression, Hatred, Treatment)
"Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Faith, Men, People, Hatred)
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Life, Purpose, Hatred, Meaning)
"Love is a given, hatred is acquired."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Love, Hatred)
"Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Love, Eyes, Hatred, Hearing, Nothing)
"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Quality, Hatred, Ideology, Promises, Rituals, Solidarity)
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Society, Ancestry, Delusion, Hatred, Nation, United)
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise."
- John Keats
(Related: Wisdom, Man, Vanity, Will)
"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
(Related: Forgiveness, Love, Hatred)
"Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy."
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
(Related: Hatred, Help, Intolerance, Poor, Trying, Violence)
"I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Faults, Self)
"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."
- Emma Lazarus
(Related: People, Community, Contempt, Fact, Favorite, Hatred)
"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."
- Robert E. Lee
(Related: Love, War, Hatred, Neighbors)
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
- Giacomo Leopardi
(Related: Experience, Life, Hatred, Mankind, Philosophy, Solitude, World)
"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Friendship, Hatred)
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Evil, Hatred)
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: People, Confidence, Cowardice, Distrust, Hatred, Opinions)
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
- James Madison
(Related: Hatred, Labor, Luxury, Pride, Property, Vanity, Vice)
"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"
- Camryn Manheim
(Related: Celebrity)
"America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: War, America, Enemies, Hatred, Oppression, Radical, Violence)
"Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Death, Fire, Hatred, Pity, Prosperity, Treachery)
"Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Harm, Hatred, Living, Talk)
"I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic."
- Josh McDowell
(Related: Father, Hatred)
"The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity."
- David O. McKay
(Related: Bigotry, Darkness, Hatred, Humanity, Malice, Night, Selfishness, Sun)
"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."
- John Mellencamp
(Related: Country, Hatred, President, Will)
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
- Warren Mitchell
(Related: Comedy, Conflict, Hatred)
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
- Hannah More
(Related: Forgiveness, Anger, Heart, Economy, Hatred, Spirits, Waste)
"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
- Robin Morgan
(Related: Act, Class, Man, Right)
"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Emotion, Hatred)
"One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Sister, Brothers, Contempt, Difficulties, Hatred, Kids)
"Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred."
- Yousef Munayyer
(Related: Leadership, Quality, Fear, Hatred, Humility, Respect)
"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: War, Victory, Enemy, Hatred, Liberty, Planning, Road, Succeed, Today, Will)
"Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence."
- Pervez Musharraf
(Related: Peace, Islam, Brotherhood, Hatred, Tolerance, Violence)
"It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction."
- John Boyd Orr
(Related: War, Fear, Gods, Destruction, First, Hatred, May, Neurosis, Propaganda)
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
- George Orwell
(Related: Patriotism, Class, Hatred)
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
- George Orwell
(Related: Age, Politics, Folly, Hatred, Lies)
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
- George Orwell
(Related: War, Hatred, Jealousy, Nothing, Play, Pleasure, Rules, Violence, Words)
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
- George Orwell
(Related: War, People, Fighting, Hatred, Lies)
"Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive."
- Walker Percy
(Related: Life, People, Hatred, World)
"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
- Peace Pilgrim
(Related: Love, Truth, Evil, Falsehood, Hatred)
"In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else."
- Ernie Pyle
(Related: Victory, Being, Despair, Excitement, Expression, Eyes, Hatred, Nothing)
"Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice."
- Francis Quarles
(Related: Anger, Hatred, Malice, May, Night)
"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
- Mary Renault
(Related: Love, Soul, Hatred)
"The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq."
- Bill Richardson
(Related: Positive, Democracy, Freedom, Hatred, Help, Iraq, President, Sentiment, Talking)
"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Friendship, Love, Consequences, Hatred)
"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Love, Affection, Hatred)
"I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you."
- Henry Rollins
(Related: Destiny, Fate, Hatred, Paranoia)
"Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred."
- Henry Rollins
(Related: People, Hatred, Nothing)
"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Wealth, Deep, Envy, Harm, Hatred, Vices)
"Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Hatred, Man)
"I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading."
- Arundhati Roy
(Related: People, Victory, Hindu, Congress, Hatred)
"Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed."
- Robert Runcie
(Related: Christian, Hatred)
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Love, Power, Hatred, Idealism)
"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?"
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Successful, Feeling, Hatred, Propaganda)
"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Happiness, People, Contempt, Disguise, Hatred, Race)
"All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity."
- Sallust
(Related: Anger, Friendship, Hatred, Pity)
"The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Muslim, Hatred, World)
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Related: Religion, Anger, Hatred, Humility, Pain, Smile)
"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Heart, Contempt, Hatred)
"It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Hatred, Israel)
"Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Peace, Hatred, Israel)
"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Food, Censure, Drama, Hatred, Order, Self)
"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
- Matthew Shipp
(Related: Hatred, Jazz)
"Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag."
- Bill Shuster
(Related: War, Enemy, Extremism, Fight, Hatred, Terror, Today)
"Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Heart, Forget, Hatred, Injury)
"Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice."
- Joey Skaggs
(Related: Hatred, Prejudice)
"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it."
- Robert South
(Related: Anger, Hatred)
"Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Love, Hatred, Violence, Wounds)
"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Doubt, Hatred, Suspicion)
"The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events."
- Cat Stevens
(Related: Religion, People, Muslim, Events, Hatred, Horror, Names, Nothing, Shame)
"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."
- August Strindberg
(Related: Love, Hatred, Indifference, Now)
"The first reaction to truth is hatred."
- Tertullian
(Related: Truth, First, Hatred)
"Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy."
- Tertullian
(Related: Truth, Enemy, Hatred)
"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans."
- Helen Thomas
(Related: Peace, Music, Poetry, Hatred, Ideals, Living, Students, Teachers)
"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."
- Howard Thurman
(Related: Patriotism, War, Hatred)
"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
(Related: Politics)
"Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: War, Civilization, Destruction, Emotion, Freedom, Hatred, Justice, Respect, World)
"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
- Charles E. Trevelyan
(Related: Conviction, Today)
"I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe."
- Eamon de Valera
(Related: War, Europe, Feeling, Hatred, Passion, Promise)
"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."
- Alvaro Uribe Velez
(Related: Dream, Hatred, Nation)
"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."
- Lech Walesa
(Related: Life, Hatred, Lies, Violence)
"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen."
- Lech Walesa
(Related: Defense, Dignity, Feeling, Rights, Hatred, Road)
"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people."
- Alice Walker
(Related: Mother, People, Despair, Future, Hatred, Woman)
"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
- Simone Weil
(Related: Hatred, Lying, Pain, Present)
"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
(Related: Men, Life, Hatred)
"My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance."
- Ryan White
(Related: Family, People, Hatred, Ignorance, Victims)
"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Technology, Danger, Hatred, Mankind)
"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Technology, Disaster, Hatred)
"Hatred is blind, as well as love."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Love, Blind, Hatred)
"Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred."
- Lalu Prasad Yadav
(Related: Hatred, Play)
"To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe."
- Peter Yarrow
(Related: Causes, Cure, Hatred, Violence, Will)
"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Mother, Heart, Hatred, Ireland)
"An intellectual hatred is the worst."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Hatred)
"Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation."
- Francis Parker Yockey
(Related: Enemy, Hatred, Public, Thinking, Weakness)
"Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate."
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
(Related: Hatred, Iraq, Terror, Violence)
"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!"
- Slavoj Zizek
(Related: Focus, Hatred, Old, states, United)