Quotes about Hatred
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
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.
— John Calvin
As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.
— Anonymous
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
— Anonymous
Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.
— Francine Rivers
Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.
— Amos Oz
When I am brought to such a state that the more obstacles, hatred, and ingratitude surround me, the more the power of love can triumph in me.
— Andrew Murray
The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.
— Samuel Johnson
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
— David O. McKay
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
— Martin Luther
We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.
— George W. Bush
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
— Edmund Burke