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Quotes About Hatred

I got hundreds and hundreds of poisonous e-mails from Jews all over the world. I couldn't understand this hatred toward me. I fought against racism all my life. I was for Israel. I wrote 'Mauthausen.' After all that, how could I become from one day to the next an anti-Semite?
~ Mikis Theodorakis
Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.
~ Francesca Marciano
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
~ Francis Quarles
If hatred of sin is necessary to God, then penal justice is equally necessary because the hatred of sin is the constant will of punishing it.
~ Francis Turretin
When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
~ Frank Miller
Welcome me, if you will, as the ambassador of a hatred who knows its cause and does not envy you your whim of ending him.
~ Frank O'Hara
Du kannst mich nicht vertreiben, nicht verbrennen und nicht ertränken. Dein Hass reicht nicht aus, mich zu besiegen, er macht mich nur stärker.
~ Frank Schätzing
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
[On certain political opponents:] They are unanimous in their hatred for me—and I welcome their hatred.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love of what is good and useful, and hatred of what is ugly or evil and harmful are the conditions for success. Bashfulness (hayâ, corresponding to Greek aidôs) and the avoidance of bad company and of sloth are among the qualities strongly recommended for inculcation in the young.
~ Franz Rosenthal
With terrorists, whether al-Fatah or Black September or the new, supposedly religious breed, the rage and the hatred come first.
~ Frederick Forsyth
invero gli dèi mi avevano fatto dono del privilegio più grande che mente umana possa concepire, la sublime libertà di odiare quelli che ci hanno messo al mondo
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers
~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
Spengler] made peace with contemporary Germany, not with the Nazis, for I know of no one who hated them as he did, on lying down, in sleeping, and in rising up!
~ Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
That a thing is hated is not proof that it's great art, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it is not.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Despite that loyalty, Hrathen had never felt what Dilaf now expressed. Hrathen had no hatreds so severe that he wept, no loves so profound that he would risk everything in their name. He had always believed that he was the perfect follower of Jaddeth; that his Lord needed levelheadedness more than He needed unbridled ardor. Now, however, he wondered.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Human taste is as varied as human fingerprints," Wit said. "Nobody will like everything, everybody dislikes something, someone loves that thing you hate—but at least being hated is better than nothing. To risk metaphor, a grand painting is often about contrast: brightest brights, darkest darks. Not grey mush. That a thing is hated is not proof that it's great art, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it is not.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Los gustos humanos son tan variados como las huellas dactilares —dijo Sagaz—. A nadie le gusta todo, a todos les desagrada algo, alguien ama algo que tú odias... pero al menos, que te odien es mejor que nada.
~ Brandon Sanderson
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
~ Brenda Ueland
El odio puede ser fuente de energía sólo por un tiempo limitado. Nos infunde la ilusión de ser fuertes pero, ante todo, es un parásito que nos devora
~ Henning Mankell
Around the table, we know whether there is friendship and community or hatred and division. Precisely because the table is the place of intimacy for all the members of the household, it is also the place where the absence of that intimacy is most painfully revealed.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
~ Henry Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate. The chief charm of New England was harshness of contrasts and extremes of sensibility - a cold that froze the blood, and a heat that boiled it - so that the pleasure of hating - one's self if no better victim offered - was not
~ Henry Adams