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"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."
"If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly."
"Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health."
"Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love."
"Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex."
"I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right."
"Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another."
"Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke."
"Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself"
"Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us."
"It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling."
"Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise."
"Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light."
"It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen."
"My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults."
"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White."
"If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred."
"I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing."
"Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do."
"Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is."
