
„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)
A collection of quotes on the topic of hate, love, people, doing.
„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.
Total 2980 quotes hate, filter:
— 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.
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13040159/billie-eilish-interview/
„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.
— 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.
„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
— 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.
„If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.“
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
„You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.“
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
„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
„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
„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
— 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.
— 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
— 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.
„When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
„if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.“
— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl
Source: Love, Stargirl
„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
„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.
— 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
„You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.“
— Paris Hilton American socialite 1981
„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
„If people hate you, then you're probably doing something right“
— Amy Lee American singer-songwriter and pianist 1981
— 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
— Muhammad Ali, book The Soul of a Butterfly
"Still the Greatest", p. 109
The Soul of a Butterfly (2004)
— 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
„[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
— 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
— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916
„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
— 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.
„Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.“
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
— 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
„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
„People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.“
— P. C. Cast American writer 1960
„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)
„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
„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
— Ludwig von Mises austrian economist 1881 - 1973
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
— Markus Persson Swedish video game programmer 1979
In Twitter (14 August 2017) https://twitter.com/notch/status/897158641962319878
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917
In Degas by Himself, Drawings, Paintings, Writings, ed. Richard Kendall 2000, p. 299
quotes, undated
— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
— 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
— 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
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
As quoted in The NIRVANA Reader: 1988 – 1992 (Published December 2008).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
„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)
— 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
— 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
— 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)
— Jack Handey American comedian 1949
Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-13365-6
„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
— Morrissey English singer 1959
From "Home thoughts from abroad", article by Frank Owen, Melody Maker (27 Sep 1986)
In interviews etc., About other artists
— Mikhail Bakunin Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism 1814 - 1876
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 356<!-- New York: NY, Vintage Books -->
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.
— 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.
— Brennan Manning, book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11
1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
— David Lane (white nationalist) American white supremacist, convicted felon 1938 - 2007
Drugs and Governments
Focus Fourteen
„I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
— Julia Quinn, book The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
Source: The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever