"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury."
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"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
"Some evils are cured by contempt."
"Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love."
"Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre."
"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison."
"I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest."
"It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind."
"Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse."
"Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred."
"Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
"There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy."
"When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust."
"Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right."
"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."
"One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers."
"I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred."
"You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place."
"The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love."
"The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist."