Hatred Quotes

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Brooks Adams

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Minna Antrim

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

James Baldwin

Hatred destroys the person who hates.

James Baldwin

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the "mystery" of life.

E. M. Cioran

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

John Lyly

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Tacitus

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

James Thurber

If there's no hatred in a mind, assault and battery of the wind, can never tear the linnet from the leaf

William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hate is the worst.

William Butler Yeats