Quotes on Hate

These quotes on hate would help in understanding what hate is and how to deal with it and overcome hate and hatefulness most effectively...

Best Quotes on Hate

"Cherish those hearts that hate thee."
~William Shakespeare

Hating People Is Like Burning Down Your House

"Hating people is like burning down your house
to get rid of a rat."
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

"They hate not only their enemies
but everyone who does not share their hatred."
~George Bernard Shaw

"That which I hate and fear is really in myself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hatred is self-punishment."
~Proverbs

Love Versus Hate

"Hate is a simple emotion while love is a complex one.
Love might be compared to the tall and elaborate sand castle,
taking many hours of painstaking effort, cooperation, balance
and persistence.
Hate is the foot that comes along and with one vicious kick
destroys what has been built up."
~Sydney Harris

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of Love
is not hate it's apathy."
~Leo Buscaglia

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."
~Eldridge Cleaver

Dealing With Hate and Haters To Overcome Hatefulness

"There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong,
and that is by doing them good."
~Henri Amiel

"Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love.
This is a law eternal."
~The Dhammapada

"Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him"
~Booker T Washington

"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish
than oneself hated and feared-
this must someday become the highest maxim
for every single commonwealth."
~Friedrich Nietzsche

"Self-hatred leads to the need
either to dominate or to be dominated."
~Gloria Steinem

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is
part of yourself. What isn't a part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
~Hermann Hesse

"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

Proverbs on Hate

"Hatred is blind, as well as love."
~Proverbs

"Hatred is self-punishment."
~Proverbs

"In time we hate that which we often fear."
~Proverbs

"Violent hatred sinks us below those we hate."
~French Proverb

"Hatred is a settled anger."
~Latin Proverb

"Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness."
~Proverbs

"Hatred stirreth up strife: but love covereth all sins."
Old Testament, Proverb

More Quotes on Hate

"All hate is self-hate."
~A S Neill

"Folks never understand the folks they hate."
~J R Lowell

"I imagine one of the reason 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

"People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority."
~Lord Chesterfield

"Men hate those to whom they have to lie."
~Victor Hugo

"Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine."
~Lord Byron

"He who says he is in light and hates his brother
is in the darkness still."
~John, 1 John 2:9

"For him who fain would teach the world
The world holds hate in fee-
For Socrates, the hemlock cup;
For Christ, Gethsemane."
~Don Marquis

"Hated by fools, and fools to hate,
Be that my motto and my fate."
~Swift, To Dr. Delany

"Perhaps no phenomenon contains so much destructive feeling
as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted
out under the disguise of virtue."
~ERich Fromm

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

"Hatred is gained as much by good work as by evil."
~Machiavelli

"He who hates a man is as if he hated God."
~Midrash

"Hatred is love frustrated."
~Ashley Montagu

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