Hate Quotes

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Joseph Baretti

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849)

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka

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

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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

Henry Adams

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Conan Doyle

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Utterly Russell

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U Thant

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Conan Doyle

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

Homer, The Iliad

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos

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

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

Jesus Christ

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.

Shawnee Indian Chant

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Kristen Ashley Roth

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

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

Tacitus

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butle

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Charles Sanders Pierce

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Flora Edwards

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

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