When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
It’s not only necessary to know how to go about loving your enemies, but also to go down into the question of why we should love our enemies. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
End discrimination. Hate everybody.
—Unknown
Hatred is inveterate anger.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) American Poet, Dramatist
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
—Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
Authority is never without hate.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Love and hate are such strong words, they also cause so much pain
—Indian Proverb
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred—this is the law of eternal.
—Buddhist Teaching
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
—Common Proverb
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
—Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Theologian
Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it.
—Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American Science-Fiction Writer
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
—Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
—W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Actor, Comedian, Writer
Take care that no one hates you justly.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
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 (1749–1832) German Poet
You lose a lot of time, hating people.
—Marian Anderson (1897–1993) American Singer
Wisely and slow;—they stumble that run fast.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day ’cause that means it’s gonna be up all night.
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
—E. F. Schumacher (1911–77) German Mathematician, Economist
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.
—Nagarjuna (150–250) Indian Buddhist Monk-Philosopher
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
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 (1799–1850) French Novelist
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