What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
The fiercest fire is hatred.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, The Gospel of Buddha
Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself.
RICHARD NIXON, speech, Aug. 9, 1974
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Guilty Pleasures
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
CASSANDRA CLARE, City of Glass
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange Land
Hatred comes with a persistency worthy of a better cause, and clamors for possession of the citadel of the soul.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY, Helps to Happiness
- So we're different colours
- And we're different creeds
- And different people have different needs
- It's obvious you hate me
- Though I've done nothing wrong
- I've never even met you so what could I have done
- I can't understand
- What makes a man
- Hate another man
- Help me understand
- Help me understand
- Now you're punching
- And you're kicking
- And you're shouting at me
- I'm relying on your common decency
- So far it hasn't surfaced
- But I'm sure it exists
- It just takes a while to travel
- From your head to your fists
DEPECHE MODE, "People are People"
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Cerulean Sins
- Now I am silent, hate
- Up to my neck,
- Thick, thick.
- I do not speak.
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
JEANETTE WINTERSON, The Passion
A strong hatred [is] the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
REBECCA WEST, The Freewoman, Mar. 7, 1912
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, The Biglow Papers
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