Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Oliver

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

J. C. Ryle

True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Jack Kornfield

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

Clarence Darrow

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

Jerry Bridges

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

George Washington

The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

John Calvin

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

John Calvin

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

Joey Skaggs

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Joan of Arc

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Mary Renault

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Mike Krzyzewski

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

John Tillotson

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Philip Roth

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Henri Matisse

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

Friedrich Schiller

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Luc de Clapiers

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Mahatma Gandhi

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

Matthieu Ricard

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Max Beerbohm

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

Eric Hoffer

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

Eric Hoffer

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

Emile M. Cioran

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Tony Blair

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

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.