Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
—Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) English Courtier, Navigator, Poet
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
—Buddhist Teaching
There’s no hate lost between us.
—Thomas Middleton (c.1580–1627) English Dramatist, Poet
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
—E. F. Schumacher (1911–77) German Mathematician, Economist
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
—Rollo May (1909–94) American Philosopher
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
—Unknown
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
—The Dhammapada Buddhist Anthology of Verses
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Reject hatred without hating.
—Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) American Christian Science Religious Leader, Humanitarian, Writer
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–47) French Moralist, Essayist, Writer
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defense, and for defense only; it is the safeguard of justice, and the security of innocence.
—George Goodman (b.1930) American Economist, Author
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
—George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish Author, Poet, Editor, Critic, Painter
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
—Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
—Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
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
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
—Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American Educationist
End discrimination. Hate everybody.
—Unknown
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 (1732–76) French Salon Hostess, Writer
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.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
‘Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly antagonistic towards one another and mutually exclusive. A great deal of hatred, indeed, has no other source than a compelled respect for the superior qualities of some other person; conversely, if you were to consider hating every miserable wretch you met you would have your work cut out: it is much easier to despise them one and all. True, genuine contempt, which is the obverse of true, genuine pride, stays hidden away in secret and lets no one suspect its existence: for if you let a person you despise notice the fact, you thereby reveal a certain respect for him, inasmuch as you want him to know how low you rate him
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it.
—Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American Science-Fiction Writer
Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
—Common 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 (1592–1644) English Religious Poet
Press no further with hate.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
Some evils are cured by contempt.
—Common Proverb
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
—James Thurber
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
—Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Theologian
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
—Unknown
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry.—Take time for all things.—Great haste makes great waste.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
—Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American Singer-Songwriter
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
—Eldridge Cleaver (1935–98) American Author, Activist
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
—Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator
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
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Baptist Minister
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
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright