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 | Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 26 likes |
 | Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 9 likes |
 | Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 8 likes |
 | Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 7 likes |
 | I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 7 likes |
 | A true man hates no one. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 likes |
| Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 6 likes |
 | I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 5 likes |
 | Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred! — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 5 likes |
 | I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. And neither feeling is quite within our control. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 4 likes |
 | As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Hatred — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
| We cannot hate those who we despise. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Most men know what they hate; few what they love. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 3 likes |
 | Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 likes |
 | The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
| I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 2 likes |
 | To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
 | Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? |
 | When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves. |
 | It is so tiring to hate someone you love. |
 | Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the deepest hatreds. |
 | Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. |
 | Hatred, for those who do not hate, it is a bit like the smell of garlic for those who have not eaten it. |
 | The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. |
| Hate is a lack of imagination. |
| I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. |
 | If you are not ready to kill what you claim to hate, do not say you hate: you are prostituting that word. |
 | If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. |
 | I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world. |
 | To hate everything is to be wounded by everything. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. |
 | Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. |
 | Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. |
| Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. |
Latin Quotes
 | Let them hate, as long as they fear. Oderint, dum metuant. — Caligula, 12-41 AD, Roman Emperor (originally a verse by the poet Accius) 170 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | It is not my nature to hate but to love. Ου συνέχθειν αλλά συμφιλείν έφυν. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Antigone 10 likes |
 | Except for the one that gave birth to me, I hate the entire genus of women Πλην της τεκούσης, θήλυ παν μισώ γένος. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Melanippe 7 likes |
