Hate Quotes
Shakespeare, Byron, Benjamin Franklin, Jesus and Audre Lorde lead. The best-sourced lines are King’s, from Strength to Love (1963), that hatred paralyzes life and love releases it, and Rousseau’s, from the Confessions, that hatred, like love, renders its votaries credulous. Samuel Butler’s notebooks, published in 1912, have the most cynical entry: it does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
Two entries are flagged as disputed. “Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed” is credited to Bertrand Russell. “I don’t have prejudice, I hate everyone equally” is credited to H. L. Mencken.
The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.
'Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.
Depend on me; never fear your enemies. I'll warrant we make more noise than they.
We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
I have seen it before. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life...
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!