Hatred Quotes - Page 17

• I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Expression

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• Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wings, Mind

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Hate, Anger

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

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• Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Heart, Water

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• In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

  Erich Fromm

  Baby, Real, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Passion, Humanity

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• It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hate, Men, Littles

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• I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Kids, People, Remember

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• Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

  Tacitus

  Gratitude, Thinking, Long

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.132, Modern Library

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• Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kissing, Countenance, Concealed

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Class, Society, May

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• Hatred observes with more care than love does.

  Mason Cooley

  Doe, Literature, Care

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Cases, Has Beens

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Together, Bed

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• In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Art, Moving, Past

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• Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

  George W. Bush

  Forgiveness, Grief, Remembrance

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Real, Taken, Eden

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• I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

  Savitri Devi

  Worship, Knows

  "Pilgrimage". Book by Savitri Devi, p. 327, 1958.

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• In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Sorrow, Ends

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015

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• Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Christian, Fire, Blood

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Strong, Army, People

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• A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Men, Quality

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• My hatred gives me strength.

  Janet Fitch

  Hate, Giving, Give Me Strength

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

  John Fowles

  Book, Desire, Obviousness

  John Fowles (2005). “The Journals: 1949-1965”, Knopf

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