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Quotes About Hatred

Yes, it's true that the way I play is very heavy and I understand the hatred that people who do not know me can have me to me.
~ Jordi Alba
The way I see it hatred, racism and bigotry are like embers that, over time - with honest debate, leadership, and a firm commitment to our moral and democratic values - can be extinguished.
~ Phil Scott
Contempt is murder committed by the intellect, as hatred is murder committed by the heart.
~ George MacDonald
Spiritual Murder It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated.
~ George MacDonald
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.
~ George Orwell
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.
~ George Orwell
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
One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.
~ George Orwell
You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.
~ George Orwell
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
~ George Orwell
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
~ George Orwell
There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account.
~ George Orwell
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
~ George Orwell
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
~ George Orwell
The old civilisations claimed that they were founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything.
~ George Orwell
From now onwards he must not only think right; he must feel right, dream right. And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst.
~ George Orwell
The point is that as soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged
~ George Orwell
And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same -- people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.
~ George Orwell
No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.
~ George Orwell
In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl's body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story. But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.
~ George Orwell
It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
~ George Orwell
a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
~ George Orwell