quotations about hate
Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.
TRACI LORDS
Twitter post, September 3, 2014
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.
TAHEREH MAFI
Shatter Me
You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Glass
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
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
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
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
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth,
But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me--they hate you too. They hate everybody. Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone--and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.... They need hate in order to feel superior.
ELIE WIESEL
O: The Oprah Magazine, Nov. 2000
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
The moment we begin hating we start a train of mischief. Instantly the person we hate becomes a painful object, not to the physical eye alone, but to the eye of consciousnes which can see objects far away or not present at all. The good haters carry about with them many such objects. They fill their house of life with hideous furniture. Life itself they make ugly. And the ugliness they reflect in their feeling, often in their looks. The good haters easily assume hateful expressions. And hateful expressions sometimes become fixed in the face. Indeed, all the beauty doctors in the world cannot hide such betrayals. Furthermore, hating quickly shows itself to the object hated. If the object hated is human it is likely to return hate for hate. Now the war is on. There is no knowing how far it will go, with its reprisals. Invariably hating brings out the worst aspects in the hater and in the hated.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.
HERBERT SPENCER
The Study of Sociology
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
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity.
ARTHUR ALFRED LYNCH
Moods of Life
Hatred is like fire--it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT
Janet's Repentance
Hatred is the ballast of
the rock
which lies upon our necks
and underfoot.
MAYA ANGELOU
"Glory Falls"
There's no hate lost between us.
THOMAS MIDDLETON
The Witch
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters