Quotations and Poems

» “Reject hatred without hating.”
– Mary Baker Eddy

»  ”Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”
– Hosea Ballou

»  ”Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”
– Honore De Balzac

»  ”There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

»  ”That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me — with such a one I am in love.”
– Bhagavad Gita

»  ”Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.”
– Sir Thomas Browne

»  ”Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
– Buddha

»  ”Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
– Buddha

»  ”Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred — this is the law of eternal.”
– Buddha

»  ”Hatred is the madness of the heart.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

»  ”Hatred is inveterate anger.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

»  ”Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

»  ”I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.”
– Sean Connery

»  ”Hatred — The anger of the weak.”
– Alphonse Daudet

»  ”Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.”
– Iba Ezra

»  ”Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

»  ”Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.”
– Benjamin Franklin

»  ”Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.”
– Thomas Fuller

»  ”Hatred can be overcome only by love.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

»  ”It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
– Andre Gide

»  ”Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.”
– Albert Guerard

»  ”We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.”
– William Hazlitt

»  ”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

»  ”Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”
– Eric Hoffer

»  ”Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

»  ”The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.”
– Jean De La Bruyere

»  ”When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

»  ”You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
– Julie De Lespinasse

»  ”People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.”
– Jerry Lewis

»  ”Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.”
– Amy Lowell

»  ”Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli

»  ”A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.”
– Archibald Macleish

»  ”We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.”
– Basil W. Maturin

»  ”Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
– Rollo May

»  ”Hate can only flourish where love is absent.”
– William C. Menninger

»  ”Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.”
– Siddha Nagarjuna

»  ”Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself.”
– Richard M. Nixon

»  ”Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.”
– Richard M. Nixon

»  ”I have tried — not always successful — to remember this lesson: Even people I dislike have a piece of God. My task is to move the junk out of the way so that I can find it.”
– Robert P. O’Brien

»  ”Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”
– Ovid

»  ”Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.”
– Cesare Pavese

»  ”There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.”
– Peace Pilgrim

»  ”Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.”
– Proverb

»  ”Some evils are cured by contempt.”
– Proverb

»  ”Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.”
– Francis Quarles

»  ”Hatreds are the cinders of affection.”
– Sir Walter Raleigh

»  ”To hate fatigues.”
– Jean Rostand

»  ”Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.”
– Bertrand Russell

»  ”He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.”
– Sallust

»  ”Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
– Seneca

»  ”No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.”
– Seneca

»  ”Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”
– George Bernard Shaw

»  ”Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.”
– Adam Smith

»  ”From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
– Socrates

»  ”Take care that no one hates you justly.”
– Publilius Syrus

»  ”There is no medicine to cure hatred.”
– Publilius Syrus

»  ”It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.”
– Publius Cornelius Tacitus

»  ”Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.”
– Bob Udkoff

»  ”Hate pollutes the mind.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

»  ”Press no further with hate.”
– Virgil

»  ”I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
– Booker T. Washington

»  ”Anyone can hate. It costs to love.”
– John Williamson