Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Robert Wright

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

Voltaire

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

Virginia Woolf

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

William Taylor

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

Wendell Berry

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,

Walter Raleigh

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Virginia Woolf

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred...

Walker Percy

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Ralph Steadman

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Thomas Aquinas

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Sallust

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Tony Blair

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

Sigmund Freud

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Suzanne Collins

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another.

Tariq Ramadan

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

Umberto Eco

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Sonny Bono

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.