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Quotes About Hatred

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
~ Olara Otunnu
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
~ Ernst Junger
I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.
~ Haj Amin al-Husseini
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
~ Ernest Becker
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
~ Simon Bolivar
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
~ Albert Einstein
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
~ John Boyd Orr
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
~ Bertrand Russell
The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!
~ George Carlin
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
~ Tom Petty
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.
~ Adolf Hitler
She wasn't going to let them make her cry. She'd cried enough self-pitying tears in her life to drown a goat, and all it had gotten her was a big fat nothing. She made herself take a deep breath, but it didn't help break the traffic jam in her throat. Might as well call a spade a spade. That traffic jam came from shame. There was a big difference between knowing people still hated your guts and seeing it in their faces.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepers. We can tie weights to out guilt and passions, and hatred and deceitfulness, and let them sink down, so that you'd never know they existed at all. But we know. I can count all mine.
~ Susan Fletcher
The line from Southern hatred of Reconstruction to Southern opposition to government programs is a straight one, though it's rarely explicitly drawn. So Mississippi prefers potholes that can ruin your wheels in its capital, and schools that leave their graduates illiterate in its countryside, to imposing taxes that might fix them.
~ Susan Neiman
No white person I met in the South would say their distaste for Obama was a function of racism. I don't agree with his liberal policies, they'd tell me. But disagreement is not hatred, and a growing body of literature argues that racism was the deciding factor in the 2016 election.
~ Susan Neiman
Our country feels as if it has gathered itself at a cliff and is studying the long scree of loose rock, deciding whether to slide down and descend completely again into open hatred.
~ Susan Straight
Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
~ Suzanne Collins
He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.
~ Suzanne Collins