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"It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred."
"I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them."
"Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick."
"Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors."
"The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful."
"There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon."
"Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive."
"Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you elevate not only yourself but also the one who bears you hatred."
"Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies."
"What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
"There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?"
"Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?"
"i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires"
"The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power."
"Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!"
"A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities."
"Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does."
"When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!"
"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!"
"The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved."
