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Quotes About Hatred

Hatred can be overcome only by love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
~ Mary Renault
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .
~ Hermann Broch
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
~ Honore de Balzac
People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
~ Honore de Balzac
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.
~ Mother Teresa
Excessive love in loathing ever ends.
~ Ovid
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.
~ August Strindberg
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
~ David Foster Wallace
Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
~ David Gemmell
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.
~ Edward Abbey
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
~ Gautama Buddha
Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.
~ Georg Brandes
See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
~ William Shakespeare
One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
~ Gautama Buddha
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
~ Andre Gide
Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.
~ Gautama Buddha