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.
America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.
You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.