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“In time we hate that which we often fear.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“And where love ends, hate begins.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“To die hating them, that was freedom.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. . . . It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.” Haruki Murakami, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” - 1997

“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” - 1906

“Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“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” - 1847

“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” - 16 October 1847

“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” - 16 April 1963

“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” - 2004

“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” - 1877

“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” - 1877

“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” - 1906

“Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“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” - 1845

“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” - 1964

“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” - 1964

“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” - 1874

“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” - 1759

“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” - 1947

“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” - 1951

“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” - 1951

“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” - 1274

“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” - 1667

“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” - 1667

“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” - 1532

“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” - 1677

“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” - 1597

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“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” - 2005

“Love those that hate you...” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“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” - 1597

“For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Emile, or On Education” - 1762

“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” - 1850

“if you've been hated you've also been loved.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“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” - 1905

“If ice can burn . . . then love and hate can mate.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

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