Hateful Quotes

• There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

  Sophocles

  Advice, Bad Advice

  Sophocles, Francis Fergusson (1969). “Electra: A Version for the Modern Stage”

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• Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

  George Washington Carver

  Hater, Fear, Roots

  "George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, 1982.

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• Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

  Karl Barth

  Change, God, Hate

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 11: The Doctrine of God II.2 § 34-35”, p.122, A&C Black

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• [S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Self, People

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• It's so easy to laugh,
  It's so easy to hate,
  It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

  Steven Morrissey

  Strength, Laughter, Kindness

  "Song: 'I Know It's Over'". 1986.

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• I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

  George J. Mitchell

  Peace, Believe, Hurtful

  "The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008". Book edited by Shibley Telhami, 2010.

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• I'm too grateful to be hateful. I am too blessed to be stressed.

  El DeBarge

  Blessed, Grateful, Stressed

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• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Conservative, Conservatism, Protected

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• Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

  Homer

  Heart, Literature, Hell

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234

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• Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Sixteen

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• They're out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Wish, Sometimes

  "Meet the New Rush, Same as the Old Rush; A 'Media Matters for America' Analysis of 'The Rush Limbaugh Show'", www.mediamatters.org. May 2, 2004.

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• I hate hateful people.

  Cee Lo Green

  Hate, People, I Hate

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.

  Gautama Buddha

  Religious, Hate, People

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• I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

  Tracy Morgan

  Believe, Body, Bones

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• The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

  Herodotus

  Wise, Men, Influence

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• Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Rude, Ignorant

  "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?". Book by John Brockman (p. 43), 2007.

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• Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Children, Cells, Blood

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• All men are rapists and that's all they are

  Marilyn French

  Hate, Men, Radical Feminism

  TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)

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• Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

  Jon Kyl

  People, Unemployment, New Work

  "GOP Sen. Kyl: Unemployment Benefits Make People Not Want To Get A Job" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

  King James I

  Marijuana, Smoking, Brain

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• You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.

  Tom DeLay

  Running, Jobs, Two

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• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Order, Notion

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

  Euripides

  Children, Wife, Firsts

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

  Richard Baker

  New Orleans, Hurricanes, Poor

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• Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Nfl, Blood

  "The Classless NFL Culture". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Jan 19, 2007.

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