"Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval."
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"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
"I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."
"The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who."
"The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds."
"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
"He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?"
"Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way."
"Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made."
"Hatred is inveterate anger."
"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."
"There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder."
"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy."
"Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds."
"We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?"
"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."
"[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War."
"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
"I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror"