"Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred."
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"But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself."
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"The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes."
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"Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles."
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"One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion."
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"Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved."
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"A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness."
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"I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids."
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"There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it."
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"When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred."
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"The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there."
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"The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events."
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"Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred."
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"Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features."
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"The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim."
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"I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves."
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"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."
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"Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds."
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"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."
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"An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?"
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