hatred quotes

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Theodore Roosevelt

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Noam Chomsky

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

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

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

Fidel Castro

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Jimmy Carter

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

I don’t use blue. I don’t like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.

Kanye West

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Jackie Chan

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Billy Graham

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

James Baldwin

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Joan of Arc

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

James Madison

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

Brian Eno

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hosea Ballou