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.
To them it seemed that the gifts of an enemy were to be dreaded.
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love,
And next to love the sweetest thing is hate!
Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's foe else.
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.