Hatred Quotes - Page 27

• ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.

  Etty Hillesum

  Revenge, Grief, Sadness

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

  Thucydides

  Fate, Men, Envy

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• 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?

  Mary Renault

  Excellence, Democracy, Desire

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

  Gladys Taber

  Morning, Attitude, Together

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

  Marie Corelli

  Giving, Envy, Mind

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Atheism, World

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• I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

  George Gissing

  Hate, Food, Names

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Feelings, Stronger

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• From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Class, Steps, Consciousness

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.175, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Forgiveness, Brother, Love Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Ambition, Hysteria

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Odds, World

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

  Rae Foley

  Hate, Color, Poison

  Rae Foley (1976). “Put out the light”, Dodd Mead

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• 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.

  John Tillotson

  Mind, Ease, Affection

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• hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

  Dervla Murphy

  Hate, Damage, Inevitable

  Dervla Murphy (1995). “Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir”, p.73, The Overlook Press

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• One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

  Alice Munro

  Hate, White, Soul

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.362, Vintage

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• Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

  Audre Lorde

  Forgiveness, Wish, Hated

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• Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

  Audre Lorde

  Hate, Grief, Anger

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.129, Crossing Press

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• I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

  Dora Russell

  Creative, Machines, Grind

  Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

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• I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.

  Margaret Walker

  Hate, Believe, Men

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (1990). “How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature”, p.23, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Party, Agreement, Cells

  Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

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• The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Imagination, Enemy, Groups

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

  Iris Johansen

  Hate, Left

  Iris Johansen (2010). “One Touch of Topaz”, p.59, Bantam

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• you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.

  Irina Ratushinskaya

  Being Yourself, Hate, Years

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