"Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake."
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"No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish 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."
"did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer."
"It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference"
"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."
"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."
"To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within."
"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."
"The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love."
"It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in 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."
"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."
"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."
"Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame."
"Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred."
"Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people."
"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."
"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."
"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"