Quotes about hate

A collection of quotes on the topic of hate, love, people, doing.

Best quotes about hate

„Hatred is like a Hydra - the more heads one chops off, the stronger it grows.“

— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966

Nienawiść jest jak Hydra, im więcej głów ścinasz, tym bardziej ją wzmacniasz.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

„Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

Source: A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

„It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„In time we hate that which we often fear.“

— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

„Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.“

— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

„I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

„I love Humanity but I hate humans“

— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

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.

„It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.“

— Jack Kerouac, book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

„Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you“

— Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Variant: Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.

„A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Context: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

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„Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Women, Game, Thinking, Time

„This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Life, Truth, World, Smile

„Life is good, life is great.
Alaways love and never hate.
Break the rules, stand apart.
Ignore your head, and follow your heart.“

— Ashley Purdy American musician 1984

Love, Life, Heart

„I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing… forgiveness.“

— Louis Zamperini Italian-American middle distance runner 1917 - 2014

Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.

Life, Forgiveness, Thinking, Hurt

„I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.“

— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13040159/billie-eilish-interview/

Smile, Feeling, Making love

„I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Variant: I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Love

„Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Love, Light, Motivational, Inspirational

„Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Source: Barfly

People, Feeling

„I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.“

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.

Way

„At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Incesticide liner notes (1992)

People, Women, Way, Color

„If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.“

— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943

World, Light

„When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.“

— Karl Lagerfeld German fashion designer 1933 - 2019

People

„You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.“

— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

Tree

„Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.“

— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948

Source: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

Love, Learning, Forgetting

„I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Love

„Who taught you to hate yourself?“

— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

„I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. Why would I be scared of a faggot?“

— Morgan Freeman American actor, film director, and narrator 1937

@MorgonFreeman on Twitter, a now-defunct account also known as "Tweets from God". This Twitter account was never written or controlled by Freeman, and was a parody of his character in the films Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. snopes.com: Morgan Freeman on Homophobia http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/freeman.asp
Misattributed

„You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable,
Still they hate you, you're a vegetable,
You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable,
They eat off you, you're a vegetable.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

Thriller (1982)

„Let them hate us as long as they fear us.“

— Caligula 3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty 12 - 41

Fear

„Whether you hate me or not, I'm the leader. If the team is scattered, there's only one leader. Therefore, you must follow the instructions of the commander. Obito, you haven't got any strength. Because of that, I'm the leader.“

— Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

To Obito, In Kakashi Gaiden

„It's like I'm the one you love to hate, but not today“

— Simple plan (band)

Love

„Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?“

— Emil M. Cioran, book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

Death

„I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.“

— Jeff Buckley American singer, guitarist and songwriter 1966 - 1997

Beauty, Time

„Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped.
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Fate, Children, Truth, Dreams

„What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.“

— Oskar Schindler German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer 1908 - 1974

Remark in 1972, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow.

„Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.“

— Charles de Gaulle eighteenth President of the French Republic 1890 - 1970

Attributed to de Gaulle by Romain Gary, Life, May 9, 1969
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2

Love, People

„War without Hate“

— Erwin Rommel German field marshal of World War II 1891 - 1944

Krieg ohne Haß
In the preamble written by his wife of the 1953 edition published by the publishing house "Heidenheimer Zeitung", she clearly states that all the chapter titles as well as the book title were chosen by the editors, thus not Erwin Rommel himself.

War

„Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons.“

— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

Hunger, Game, Heart, Love

„When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

„Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto“

— Stan Lee American comic book writer 1922 - 2018

Faith, Color, Drawing

„if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.“

— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

People, Learning, Personality

„The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.“

— Norman Vincent Peale, book The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

Way, Thinking, Heart, Forgetting

„All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.“

— Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter 1932 - 2003

Love, Life, Wise, Deep

„Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.“

— Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977

Variant: Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

Animals

„I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.“

— James Baldwin, book The Fire Next Time

"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Source: The Fire Next Time

Pain, People, Imagination, Sense

„I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.“

— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Sleep, Heart, Personality

„You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.“

— Paris Hilton American socialite 1981

People

„it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people“

— Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter 1932 - 2003

People

„If people hate you, then you're probably doing something right“

— Amy Lee American singer-songwriter and pianist 1981

People

„Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.“

— Osama bin Laden, book Messages to the World

As quoted in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) by Bruce Lawrence ISBN 1844670457
2000s, 2004

War, Heart

„Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they
keep hollering I'm full of hate.
But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause
I'm doing good and having fun.“

— Muhammad Ali, book The Soul of a Butterfly

"Still the Greatest", p. 109
The Soul of a Butterfly (2004)

Fate, Hurt

„I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.“

— Meryl Streep American actress 1949

Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed

Love, Life, Friendship, People

„[N]o man hates God without first hating himself.“

— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979

Source: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 1, p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=ho40AAAAMAAJ&q=%22No+man+hates+God+without+first+hating+himself%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage

God

„In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

World, Dreams, Hope, Despair

„I write and leave behind me this letter at St. Petersburg. I feel that I shall leave life before January 1st. I wish to make known to the Russian people, to Papa, to the Russian Mother and to the children, to the land of Russia, what they must understand. If I am killed by common assassins, and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, have nothing to fear, remain on your throne and govern, and you, Russian Tsar, will have nothing to fear for your children, they will reign for hundreds of years in Russia. But if I am murdered by boyars, nobles, and if they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled with my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash their hands from my blood. They will leave Russia. Brothers will kill brothers, and they will kill each other and hate each other, and for twenty-five years there will be no noblers in the country. Tsar of the land of Russia, if you hear the sound of the bell which will tell you that Grigory has been killed, you must know this: if it was your relations who have wrought my death then no one of your family, that is to say, none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years. They will be killed by the Russian people…I shall be killed. I am no longer among the living. Pray, pray, be strong, think of your blessed family.“

— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916

Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916

Life, Death, Children, People

„In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

As quoted in The Daily Of The University Of Washington (1989-05-05).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

Passion

„I Hate Myself And I Want To Die.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.“

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.

Pain, Love, Personality, Sadness

„Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.“

— Trevor Noah, book Born a Crime

page 267
Born a Crime

Home, Personality, Bad luck, People

„Those who hate to be socially involved, they are in love with their loneliness and those who feel alone in their company are the true lovers of social acceptance. Either way, life must be balanced between love and hate.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Loneliness, Lovers, Way, Love

„Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.“

— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Peace, Hell

„Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.“

— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952

Source: In the Sanctuary of the Soul: A Guide to Effective Prayer

Love, God, World, Way

„The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.“

— George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950

This has been attributed to Orwell on the internet, but the earliest source citing him as author appears to be a post from Jsnip4 on the RealistNews.net forum (15 February 2011) http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-realist-news-was-the-capital-gains-tax-just-removed-regarding-bullion. Prior to this, the statement occurred, without attribution to Orwell, in an opinion piece by columnist Selwyn Duke http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/duke/090506, "Stopping Truth At The Border: Banning Michael Savage From Britain" (6 May 2009) https://web.archive.org/web/20150701002957/http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/stopping-truth-at-the-border-banning-michael-savage-from-britain.
Misattributed

Truth

„People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.“

— P. C. Cast American writer 1960

Love, People

„That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.“

— Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

Love, People, Sadness, Feeling

„There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?“

— Jeff Buckley American singer, guitarist and songwriter 1966 - 1997

Love, Life, Peace, Question

„Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.“

— Andre Agassi US tennis player 1970

Love

„Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?“

— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Love, Dreams

„As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?“

— Rowan Atkinson English actor, comedian, and screenwriter 1955

Religion

„If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.“

— Gaston Leroux, book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Love

„To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.“

— Alain de Botton Swiss writer 1969

„Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions.“

— Dogen Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200 - 1253

Nature, Personality

„Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Song lyrics
Context: Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality

"Wake Up and Live!” on Survival (1979)

Jealousy, Reality

„Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.“

— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

Nearly identical quote attributed to a 1995 TV show, Touched by an Angel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0732136/quotes: Tess: No, hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it's never solved one yet.
Misattributed

World, Problem

„Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.“

— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616

Love, Heart

„The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.“

— Nicole Kidman Australian-American actress and film producer 1967

„I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Love, Fear, Way, Failure

„The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.“

— Ludwig von Mises austrian economist 1881 - 1973

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Envy

„David Eddings:‏ I'm afraid that ignorance, hate, racism, and violence will be exacerbated by silence. If speaking out is not an answer then what is?
Markus Persson:‏ Reading up on history, thinking for yourself, and not being an idiot.“

— Markus Persson Swedish video game programmer 1979

In Twitter (14 August 2017) https://twitter.com/notch/status/897158641962319878

History, Thinking, Silence, Reading

„And I love doing what I'm doing and I'd get out of it if I hated it that much. I've said it many times before: There are much worse problems in the world, people dealing with things that are phenomenally more complicated.“

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

Love, People, World, Problem

„Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves… …I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.“

— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917

In Degas by Himself, Drawings, Paintings, Writings, ed. Richard Kendall 2000, p. 299
quotes, undated

Women, Feeling, Forgiveness, Animals

„The boys in my grade talked about sex a lot. Some of them even told me that they had sex with their girlfriends. This was the most devastating and traumatizing thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Boys having sex at my age of Fourteen? I couldn’t fathom it. How is it that they were able to have such intimate and pleasurable experiences with girls while I could only fantasize about it? I frequently started asking myself. This was an all-boys school… How in the hell were those boys even able to meet girls to have sex with? I wondered. I hoped they were lying. I hoped against all hope. […] and one of my obnoxious classmates named Jesse was bragging about having sex with his girlfriend. I defiantly told him that I didn’t believe him, so he played a voice recording of what sounded like him and his girlfriend having sex. I could hear a girl saying his name over and over again while she panted franticly. He grinned at me smugly. I felt so inferior to him, and I hated him.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14

Life, Pleasure, Age, School

„I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don't know where it came from…but its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible.“

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

Fear

„Jews hate nature and the natural order, because it's pure and beautiful, and also because it's bigger and stronger than they are, and they feel that they can not fully control it. Nature's beauty and harmony stands in stark contrast to their squalidness and ugliness, and that makes them hate it all the more. Jews are destroyers. They are anti-humans.“

— Bobby Fischer American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943 - 2008

Radio Interview, February 19 2005 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_31_2.MP3I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
2000s

Beauty, Feeling, Nature

„You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me.“

— Benito Mussolini Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequent Republican… 1883 - 1945

Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini: A Biography (1983) p. 8. As quoted by Mussolini after he was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party in 1914.
1910s

Love

„If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.“

— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

As quoted in The NIRVANA Reader: 1988 – 1992 (Published December 2008).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

Music

„The Russians are primitive folk. Besides, Bolshevism is something that stifles individualism and which is against my inner nature. Bolshevism is worse than National Socialism — in fact, it can't be compared to it. Bolshevism is against private property, and I am all in favor of private property. Bolshevism is barbaric and crude, and I am fully convinced that that atrocities committed by the Nazis, which incidentally I knew nothing about, were not nearly as great or as cruel as those committed by the Communists. I hate the Communists bitterly because I hate the system. The delusion that all men are equal is ridiculous. I feel that I am superior to most Russians, not only because I am a German but because my cultural and family background are superior. How ironic it is that crude Russian peasants who wear the uniforms of generals now sit in judgment on me. No matter how educated a Russian might be, he is still a barbaric Asiatic. Secondly, the Russian generals and the Russian government planned a war against Germany because we represented a threat to them ideologically. In the German state, I was the chief opponent of Communism. I admit freely and proudly that it was I who created the first concentration camps in order to put Communists in them. Did I ever tell you that funny story about how I sent to Spain a ship containing mainly bricks and stones, under which I put a single layer of ammunition which had been ordered by the Red government in Spain? The purpose of that ship was to supply the waning Red government with munitions. That was a good practical joke and I am proud of it because I wanted with all my heart to see Russian Communism in Spain defeated finally.“

— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946

To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

Men, War, Education, Family

„Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

„There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.“

— Nanak Founder of Sikhism 1469 - 1539

Guru Nanak quotes

Death, God, Truth, Age

„The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.“

— Justin Bieber Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1994

Vibe "Justin Bieber on Photo Shoots, Puberty, 2Pac & Drake" http://www.vibe.com/article/justin-bieber-photo-shoots-puberty-2pac-drake, 22 July 2010

Lie, Girl

„The main thing:… not to let myself be defined by history, not to take it as an excuse—despise it in those who hide their personal insignificance behind it—and yet know it, in order to understand people and above all to see through them“

— Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942

my hatred of history as a refuge for be-nothings
Source: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 11

People, History, Understanding, Personality

„Being an atheist must be like living in a closed cell with no windows. I’d hate to live like that, wouldn’t you? We see them, mind you, on television today, many brilliant people who are professional atheists who say they know for a fact that it’s insanity to have a God or to believe in religion. Well, OK, God bless them for feeling that way and I hope they’re happy. But I couldn’t live with that certainty, and I wonder about some of them: why are they protesting so much? How are they so sure of what is out there? And who am I to refute the beliefs of so many great philosophers and martyrs all the way down the years?“

— Anthony Hopkins Welsh stage and television actor 1937

"Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn't be an atheist". https://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/02/11/sir-anthony-hopkins-i-couldnt-be-an-atheist/ (February 11, 2011)

God, People, Religion, Hope

„I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.“

— Jack Handey American comedian 1949

Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-13365-6

War, World

„Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.“

— George S. Patton United States Army general 1885 - 1945

Speech to the Third Army (1944)

Love, War, Idea, Hell

„I hate Americans; I hate America.“

— Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993

At a Los Angeles doughnut shop http://friesian.com/antiam.htm (4 July 2015), as quoted in "Ariana Grande: 'I Hate Americans. I Hate America.'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb3i1dejBsI (8 July 2015), TMZ

„But, ultimately, I don't have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful. I hate all those records in the Top 40 - Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston. I think they're vile in the extreme. In essence this music doesn't say anything whatsoever.“

— Morrissey English singer 1959

From "Home thoughts from abroad", article by Frank Owen, Melody Maker (27 Sep 1986)
In interviews etc., About other artists

Music, Thinking

„I hate Communism because it is the negation of liberty and because humanity is for me unthinkable without liberty.“

— Mikhail Bakunin Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism 1814 - 1876

As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 356
Context: I hate Communism because it is the negation of liberty and because humanity is for me unthinkable without liberty. I am not a Communist, because Communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the State all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the State, whereas I want the abolition of the State, the final eradication of the principle of authority and the patronage proper to the State, which under the pretext of moralizing and civilizing men has hitherto only enslaved, persecuted, exploited and corrupted them. I want to see society and collective or social property organized from below upwards, by way of free association, not from above downwards, by means of any kind of authority whatsoever.

Communication

„Only man can be hateful or ugly, because he possesses a free will to cut himself off from the chorus of praise. It often seems that he will succeed in drowning out this chorus with his cannon thunder, curses, and blasphemy. But it has become clear to me this spring that he cannot.“

— Sophie Scholl White Rose member 1921 - 1943

As quoted in O<sub>2</sub> : Breathing New Life Into Faith (2008) by Richard Dahlstrom, p. 223; this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote.
Disputed
Context: Isn't it bewildering … that everything is so beautiful, despite all the horrors that exist? Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering into my sheer joy in all that is lovely — the sense of a Creator whom innocent creation worships with its beauty. Only man can be hateful or ugly, because he possesses a free will to cut himself off from the chorus of praise. It often seems that he will succeed in drowning out this chorus with his cannon thunder, curses, and blasphemy. But it has become clear to me this spring that he cannot. And so I must try to throw myself on the side of the victor.

Spring