Hate Quotes

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

Guindon cartoon caption

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

Karl Poppe

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...

Chief Seattle

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Cyril Connolly

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Tacitus

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised.

Unknown

An intellectual hate is the worst.

William Butler Yeats

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butle

To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.

John Comenius

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil, Aeneid

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity for real or woe, there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.

W. T. Ussery

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

"Swedish Proverb".

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

John Masefield