“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)
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American activist 1935–1998Related quotes
Gillian Anderson (1968) American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer
When asked for a motivational advice — Reddit "The Reigning Queen of TV" here. Also known as "mom." Gillian Anderson here, AMA." https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/20cavl/the_reigning_queen_of_tv_here_also_known_as_mom/#cg1tob1 (March 13, 2014) <br class="br">2010s
“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
Attributed
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Death Kit (1967), p.149
“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“I love Humanity but I hate humans”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
A comment of Einstein's recalled by John Wheeler in Albert Einstein: His influence on physics, philosophy and politics edited by Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman Ulrich Sexl, and Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1979), p. 202
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variant: I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
“State socialism is the refusal to others and the abandonment for oneself of all true human rights.”
Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) British politician
Under it a man would have no rights over his own property, over his own labor, over his own amusements, over his own home and family — in a word, either over himself, or all that naturally and reasonably belonged to him, but he would have as his compensation (if there were 10,000,000 electors in his country) the one-tenth millionth share in the ownership of all his fellow-men (including himself) and of all that naturally and reasonably belonged to them and not to him.
The Principles of Voluntaryism and Free Life
“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder