Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate, to pray they have their will.
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.
Then let him know that hatred without end
Or intermission is between us two.
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.
Artifice is allowable in deceiving a rival, we may employ everything against our enemies.
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend. Better is it to have a wise enemy.
There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.