quotations about hate
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
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
SYLVIA PLATH
Ariel
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
In time we hate that which we often fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, July 24, 1711
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
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
Next to meeting somebody who admires someone we admire, we all like to meet somebody who hates someone we hate.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
There is no passion
More spectral or fantastical than Hate;
Not even its opposite, Love, so peoples air
With phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON
The Two Foscari
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz
For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Open and avowed hatred far more becomes a man of straightforward character than concealing our sentiments with a smooth brow.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
Hating is wasteful and absurd. But there are people we can't get along with, hateful people, perhaps people that hate us for no reason in the world or people that annoy us or draw us into quarreling. Isn't it better for us to keep out of the way? Often we find people taking this line of thought. As a rule it is self-deceptive. Surely it is better for us to keep out of the way of those we can't get along with. But when we meet them there is only one thing for us to do, to treat them courteously, to be careful not to let them see that we are suspicious of them or in any way unfriendly. We must actually take toward them a kindly attitude. We must realize that their faults belong to the huge family of faults from which we ourselves make a generous draft.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
Hatred is a passion that never should be permitted to rest in the breast of any human being; if nourished, there is no saying where it may lead its victim, as it often has to the "gallows." If any one you are sure hates you, perhaps you have something hateful about you; if so, mend your ways, and your enemy will cease to hate you, and you'll have ceased to be hateful, so both have benefited. Hatred is devilish, so live above it, and retire to rest each night with a bosom free from hatred to any of God's creatures. If you hate your brother or sister, God cannot love you, nor can you claim to be considered a Christian. Forgive as you hope to be forgiven, or if you forgive not, how can you expect that you will be forgiven. Nourish love and crucify any hatred in you. It is human to err, but it is divine to forgive.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hatred", Short Essays
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593
Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
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