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Quotes About Hate

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.
~ Shawn Mullins
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.
~ Errico Malatesta
People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.
~ Esther Hicks
Hate me if you want to, love me if you can.
~ Toby Keith
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
~ Louise Bourgeois
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
~ Johnny Cash
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
~ Johnny Cash
The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
~ Johnny Rich
To be the recipient of such hate, without the prospect of a word of comfort from those who loved you. The way Margery had isolated herself made Alice want to weep. It was like an animal that deliberately takes itself off somewhere solitary before it dies.
~ Jojo Moyes
I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace.
~ Jon Lee Anderson
If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?
~ Jon Stewart
Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluation, or wrecks us with the ambivalence of love and hate fused in the same desire.
~ Jonathan Dollimore
All things come into being by conflict of opposites. —HERACLITUS,1 C. 500 BCE   Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. —WILLIAM BLAKE,2 C. 1790
~ Jonathan Haidt
Siblings are thrown together by chance. Anything from love to hate can follow.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Hate is the shield the weak use against the knife thrusts of acceptance." He hated that, too. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE The historian stood before the dais, his arms heavy with books and scrolls, his heart heavy with dread.
~ Jonathan Maberry
For not only is wiping out bias and hate impossible in principle, in practice eliminating prejudice through central authority means eliminating all but one prejudice—that of whoever is most politically powerful.
~ Jonathan Rauch
Intergroup animosity need not be about anything,
~ Jonathan Rauch
Until our global institutions take a stand against the teaching and preaching of hate, all their efforts of diplomacy and military intervention will fail. Ultimately the responsibility is ours. Tomorrow's world is born in what we teach our children today.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love and practised cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. When this happens, God speaks, sometimes in a still, small voice almost inaudible beneath the clamour of those claiming to speak on his behalf. What he says at such times is: Not in My Name.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Once you can identify an enemy, reactivate a chosen trauma and unite all factions in fear and hate of a common threat, you activate the most primitive part of the brain, the amygdala with its instant and overwhelming defensive reactions, and render a culture susceptible to a pure and powerful dualism in which you are the innocent party and violence becomes both a justified revenge and the necessary protection of your group. The threefold defeat of morality then follows.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Don't worry. I know we have our differences, but there's a lot of mutual respect there. If he hesitates, I'll sweet-talk him. He won't let us down." "That total and utter idiot," Lockwood growled. "That mustachioed imbecile. That benighted, blinkered jobsworth. He's a clown! A fraud! An oaf! I hate him." "How's the mutual respect thing going?" George said.
~ Jonathan Stroud
We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
~ Jonathan Swift