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Quotes About Hatred

Yes, I can understand that. It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate." "Maybe that makes it easier," said Louis. "You have a point, Louis. But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
~ John Steinbeck
A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise and, just beneath, with gladness that he was dead.
~ John Steinbeck
To attempt to force them into a peonage of starvation and intimidated despair will be unsuccessful. They can be citizens of the highest type, or they can be an army driven by suffering and hatred to take what they need. On their future treatment will depend which course they will be forced to take.
~ John Steinbeck
Her life is one of revenge on other people because of a vague feeling of her own lack. A man born blind must in a sense hate eyes as well as envy them. A blind man might wish to remove all of the eyes in the world.
~ John Steinbeck
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
~ John Steinbeck
It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people.
~ Johnny Cash
Our ability to touch love and kindness and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are separate and alone.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.
~ Subramanya Bharathi
I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me
~ Caligula
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.
~ Daryl Davis
Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.
~ Ivo Andric
A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
~ Gautama Buddha
Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
~ Hugh Downs
Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.
~ Dalai Lama
The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.
~ Edward Gibbon
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.
~ George Orwell
Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.
~ Deepak Chopra
The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.
~ Cornel West
Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
~ Amy Ray
Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.
~ Susan Holloway Scott
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
~ Elie Wiesel
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
~ George Eliot
Now I know it's because somewhere in my mind, I still harboured hatred and fear for that man, so it was just easier to erect the brick wall and never look back.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless