Hate / Hatred - Quotes

All the time we spend hating is time that we’ve given away to someone who hasn’t earned our time. - Seth Godin

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate. - John Lyly

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. - Seneca

Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Folks never understand the folks they hate. - James Russell Lowell

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

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. - Maya Angelou

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. - Cyril Connolly 

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. - Ann Landers

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. - Cyril Connolly

Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated. - George Bernard Shaw

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. - Coretta Scott King

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule - The Buddha

Hatred is the great blazing fire. - Unknown

Hatred will take up expensive rental space in your heart, and not in the heart of the person you hate. - Unknown

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. - James Baldwin 

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. - Cicero

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

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. - Tennessee Williams

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

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree. - Ivan Panin

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart. If you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. - C. Joybell C.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me – they hate you too. They hate everybody. Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone – and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. They need hate in order to feel superior. - Elie Wiesel

It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. - Thomas Dreier

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. it causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Love, friendship, respect, will never unite people as much as a common hatred for something. - Anton Pavlovich Chekho

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred. This is the law Eternal. - Unknown

Next to meeting somebody who admires someone we admire, we all like to meet somebody who hates someone we hate. - Robert Elliott Gonzales

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. - Nelson Mandela

Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon

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

The fiercest fire is hatred. - Gautama Buddha

The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart – far more damaging to yourself than to them. - Lawana Blackwell

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

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. - Dale Carnegie