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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Hatred

"It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Hatred

"I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Hatred

"If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death."

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Emily Bronte Poet, Novelist
Hatred

"He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Hatred

"I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Hatred

"When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on."

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Dora Russell Artist
Hatred

"I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Hatred

"Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Hatred

"I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Hatred

"I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Hatred

"And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand o'er your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead"

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