Quotes about hatred

Reject hatred without hating.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

— Hosea Ballou

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

— Honore De Balzac

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

— Henry Ward Beecher

That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me -- with such a one I am in love.

— Bhagavad Gita

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

— Sir Thomas Browne

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal.

— Buddha

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

— Buddha

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

— Buddha

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

— Lord Byron

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hatred is inveterate anger.

— Marcus T. Cicero

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

— Marcus T. Cicero

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

— Sean Connery

Hatred -- The anger of the weak.

— Alphonse Daudet

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

— Iba Ezra

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

— Thomas Fuller

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

— Andre Gide

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

— Albert Guerard

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

— William Hazlitt

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

— Hermann Hesse

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

— Eric Hoffer

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

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

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

— Julie De Lespinasse

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

— Jerry Lewis

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

— Amy Lowell

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

— Archibald Macleish

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

— Basil W. Maturin

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

— Rollo May

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.

— William C. Menninger

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

— Siddha Nagarjuna

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.

— Richard M. Nixon

I have tried - not always successfully - to remember this lesson: Even people I dislike have a piece of God. My task is to move the junk out of the way so that I can find it.

— Robert P. O'Brien

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

— Ovid

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

— Cesare Pavese

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

— Peace Pilgrim

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

— Alexander Pope

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.

— Proverb

Some evils are cured by contempt.

— Proverb

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

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

— Sir Walter Raleigh

To hate fatigues.

— Jean Rostand

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

— Bertrand Russell

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

— Sallust

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

— Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

— Seneca

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

— William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

— William Shakespeare

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

— George Bernard Shaw

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

— Adam Smith

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

— Socrates

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

— Publilius Syrus

Take care that no one hates you justly.

— Publilius Syrus

It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

— William M. Thackeray

Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.

— Bob Udkoff

Hate pollutes the mind.

— Source Unknown

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

— Source Unknown

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

— Source Unknown

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Press no further with hate.

— Virgil

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

— Booker T. Washington

Anyone can hate. It costs to love.

— John Williamson

My hatred gives me strength.

— Janet Fitch

Be careful with hatred. . . . Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

— Olive Moore

Learn to understand that which you hate and fear, then the fear will fade and hatred will cease.

— Daniella Kessler

We can easily reduce our detractors to absurdity and show them their hostility is groundless. But what does this prove? That their hatred is REAL. When every slander has been rebutted, every misconception cleared up, every false opinion about us overcome, intolerance itself will remain finally irrefutable.

— Moritz Goldstein

A world so full of hate, some would rather die than be who they are.

— Source Unknown

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. . . .Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

— Richard M. Nixon