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Quotes About Hatred

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
~ Iris Murdoch
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
~ Dennis Lehane
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!
~ Anne Rice
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
~ Thomas Aquinas
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
~ Virginia Woolf
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.
~ Robert Jeffress
Love is a negative form of hatred.
~ Roger Zelazny
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.
~ C. S. Lewis
Of all the emotions, hatred is the most excruciating. Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. Of all deaths, the bitterest that can befall a man is that he lay down his life to flatter the woman he deems vilest of her sex.
~ Max Beerbohm
Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human heart are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity's greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.
~ Max Brooks
My love for her is stronger than my hatred of you.
~ Maya Banks
You care for my daughter." "My love for her is stronger than my hatred of you. 'Tis why I'll not raise arms against you today. Instead I ask your aid in the battle against the McHughs.
~ Maya Banks
You came to this clan willing to set aside your hatred or fear.
~ Maya Banks
I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.
~ Meg Cabot
It's not you she hates, Schuyler. It's me. She just turned her anger outward because she couldn't bring herself to hate whom she loves.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
La vedo chiaramente la mia miserabile mansione... ubbidire da ribelle; e peggio ancora, odiare con un'ombra di pietà
~ Melville Herman
Egli accatastava sulla bianca gobba della balena la somma di tutto il furore e di tutto l'odio provati dalla totalità della sua razza da Adamo in poi; e quindi, come se il suo petto fosse stato un mortaio, le sparava addosso il proiettile rovente del suo cuore
~ Melville Herman
If you want to make your enemy into something you can hate, you first remove his humanity.... Had Ulrich said that at one point, or had that been something he'd heard during one of Solaris' speeches? It was true, whoever had said it, and the Chronicles had certainly tried to remove all vestige of humanity from these Heralds. Make them only icons. When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp—and hate.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Fuchsia, for whom the fine art of procedure held less lure, found in old Barquentine a creature to hide from and to hate – not for any specific reason, but with the hatred of the young for the authority vested in age.
~ Mervyn Peake
If we succeed without confronting and changing shaking foundation of low self-esteem rooted in contempt of hatred, we will falter along the way.
~ bell hooks
Scarcely a year after Hitler had been handed power, something of what he had always claimed about the Jews had actually come to pass. He said they were different. And they had become different. He had accused them of being furtive and sneaky. And they had become furtive and sneaky. Covering up. Lying low. Watching the door. Hiding away. Survival rats. Constantly nervous, trying to blend in, avoiding people's
~ Ben Elton