Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Hatred

• 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

  Hate, Hatred, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Envy, Hatred

• Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, War, Hatred

• Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tombstone, Lying, Heart

• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Envy, Hatred, Needs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Love Is, Hatred

• You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Disappear Completely, Hatred

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