Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death."
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Hatred
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit."
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"Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred."
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"In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds."
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"Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love."
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"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers."
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"There is no graceful way to carry hatred."
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"I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence."
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"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."
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"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."
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"The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred."
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"All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions."
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"Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it."
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"The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism."
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"I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world."
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
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"It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse."
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"People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius."
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"You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions."
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"Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
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"Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred."
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