Hate Quotes

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Henry Emerson Fosdick

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. - E. Stanley Jones

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. - Karl Kraus

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. - James Thurber

Hatred is one long wait. - René Maran

A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias — because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love — we must be stingy with it. - Charles Baudelaire, "Advice to Young Writers," 1867

Hate cages all the good things about you. - Terri Guillemets

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. - Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is blind; hate is deaf. - Author Unknown

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. - Charles Caleb Colton

hatred bounces  - e.e. cummings

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." - Gordon Allport

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. - Hermann Hesse

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. - Charley Reese

You lose a lot of time, hating people. - Marian Anderson

 

Hatreds are the cinders of affection. - Walter Raleigh

 

How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! - Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

[H]ate brings to men wars and fear! - Gertrude Buckingham, "Christmas: The Birthday of Jesus, The Christ"

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Need we mention...
All the pages it has added to our history books?...
Hatred is a master of contrast—
between explosions and dead quiet,
red blood and white snow...
- Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), "Hatred," The End and the Beginning, 1993, translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh

Hate is misguided love. - Author Unknown

Let hate, that is the Devil's spawn,
Return to Hell where it belongs!...
- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Hatred" (1940s)

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you. - Abraham–Hicks

Hate less, live longer. - Terri Guillemets

 

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. - Socrates

No evil is as deep and dark
As bitter hatred for God's own!
- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Hatred" (1940s)

A loving heart heals hate. - Terri Guillemets

Take care that no one hates you justly. - Publilius Syrus

End discrimination. Hate everybody. - Elle Eden

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. - James Baldwin