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Quotes About Hatred

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
~ Henri Matisse
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
~ August Strindberg
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
~ Baruch Spinoza
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred is toxic to you and those around you. The condition should be treated with understanding and love until it is healed.
~ Leon Brown
George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.
~ Marlon Brando
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
~ Abdul Qadeer Khan
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.
~ Laurence Overmire
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
~ Joseph Butler
Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
~ Herman Melville
Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
~ Matt Groening
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.
~ Arab proverb
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
~ William Hazlitt
Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
~ Charlotte Bronte
It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.
~ Federico Mayor Zaragoza
I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish.
~ Jordan B. Peterson