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“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“And where love ends, hate begins.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.” Voltaire, Candide

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“In time we hate that which we often fear.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep” John Milton, Paradise Lost

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“To die hating them, that was freedom.” George Orwell, 1984

“All is not lost—the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?” John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Then she thought that life might still be happy, and how miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her heart was beating.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.” William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Since I won't let critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than...” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven: and now prepare thee for another sight.” John Milton, Paradise Lost

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“If ice can burn . . . then love and hate can mate.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale,...” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.” Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Aren't we all flung into the world only to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and each other?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Love those that hate you...” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He hated it when you called a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A...” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman.” William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I was beside myself with rage, and if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a nonconformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others.” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Consequently love must needs precede hatred; and nothing is hated, save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“If nuclear power makes them dangerous, a sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship, based on the hated supremacy of a foreign spiritual power, which, once it weakens ever so slightly, can only fall...” Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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