"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."
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"Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love."
"When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division."
"The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied."
"Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred."
"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people."
"Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong."
"All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path."
"We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist."
"When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate."
"Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
"It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide."
"In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men."
"He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... ."
"The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs."
"I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger."
"Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it."
"Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically."
"The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God."
"there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day"