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Quotes About Hatred

It sucks, being perceived as a person that you're not; it sucks being hated.
~ Louise Linton
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
~ Aeschylus
The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.
~ Bret Stephens
Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.
~ Paul Johnson
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest.
~ Ralph Ellison
If Love his moment overstay, Hatred's swift repulsions play.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
~ Ray Bradbury
Nothing, nothing of it left to hate--not an empty brass gun shell, or a twisted hemp, or a tree, or even a hill of it to hate.
~ Ray Bradbury
Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumours; the world is starving, but we're well-fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
~ Ray Bradbury
Hatred is the most damaging emotion, for it gives the person you hate a double victory—once in the past, once in the present.
~ Ray Pritchard
You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.
~ Joseph Conrad
giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day. . . . He rose slowly. 'What a frightful row,' he said. He crossed the room gently to look at the sick man, and returning, said to me, 'He does not hear.' 'What! Dead?' I asked, startled. 'No, not yet,' he answered, with great composure. Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, 'When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages—hate them to the death.' He remained
~ Joseph Conrad
The job, in Schopenhauer's steady view, is rarely brought off in a successful way. For in "the boundless egotism of our nature there is joined more or less in every human breast a fund of hatred, anger, envy, rancor, and malice, accumulated like the venom in a serpent's tooth, and waiting only an opportunity of venting itself and then, like a demon unchained, of storming and raging." Not exactly what we should nowadays call a fun guy, Schopenhauer.
~ Joseph Epstein
The fourth of his insights that allowed him to triumph in his situation was the understanding that hatred, anger, and ill will never cease if we react with the same kind of feelings.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Actions rooted in greed, hatred, or ignorance bring unpleasant results.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Who could conceive back then the enormity of Saul's brooding hatred for me or comprehend the threatening paradox that the more I accomplished to gratify him, the greater would grow the jealousy and wrath he felt toward me? I know I was hurt when I saw him so angry with me that first time, and I was flustered in a queer and guilt-ridden way each time I found him so thereafter.
~ Joseph Heller
Resentment, hatred, ill will, and hostility are behind a host of maladies.
~ Joseph Murphy
There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but there was no corresponding Class Relations Act making it illegal to incite class hatred.
~ Joseph Pearce
sinat chinam, causeless hatred
~ Joseph Telushkin
When I woke up from a forty-year sleep, it was by a song. I could hear the drums in the village. I felt the sweat of ancestors in each palm. The singers were singing the world into place, even as it continued to fall apart. They were making songs to turn hatred into love.
~ Joy Harjo
for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not
~ Joyce Carol Oates
So evil is the brood of the slogans that the most splendid and noble battle cries, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, bred nothing but new and more cunning, more hypocritical despots, better organised murder, popular nationalism drunk with the conceit of hooligans, militarism as the tool of demagogues, hatred not to be assuaged by the blood of millions and a century of tears.
~ Joyce Cary
Y por si fuera poco el estar trabado de flaco, vivía si es que todavía vive, aplastado por el odio como una piedra; y es válido decirlo, su desventura fue la de haber nacido.
~ Juan Rulfo
this two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
~ Judy Blume