Hate Quotes

It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Have you ever been hated, or discriminated againstI have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

The one I love is the son of the one I hate! -Juliet p. 75

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

I don't have any hate. I've got some sense. I'm not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him. I'm not that way-out.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.