“It'd be better if he were easier to hate.”

— Suzanne Collins , book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

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American television writer and novelist 1962

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

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“It’s always easier to hate than to forgive, isn’t it?”

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“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

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“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

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“It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.”

Eric Hoffer book The True Believer

The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise. The Japanese had an advantage over us in that they admired us more than we admired them. They could hate us more fervently than we could hate them. The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. It is of interest that the backward South shows more xenophobia than the rest of the country. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life. <!-- p. 96

“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

John Updike book Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“One of [Mann's] many reasons for hating the Third Reich was that it forced him to be a better man than he really was.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

'Thomas Mann', p. 453
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)

“They’re the rallying cries of prejudice, the call to arms of those who find it easier to hate than admit they might be not be right about everything.”

Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

"Letter from London" (18 September 2003) http://palinstravels.co.uk/static-51?topic=1752&forum=12
Context: Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people. Cries of “They’re evil, let’s get ‘em” or “The infidels must die” sound frightening, but they’re desperately empty of argument and understanding. They’re the rallying cries of prejudice, the call to arms of those who find it easier to hate than admit they might be not be right about everything.
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

“It'd be better if he were easier to hate.”

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