Quotes about hate
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Cassandra Clare photo
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“this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

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“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

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“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

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“I hate writing, I love having written.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
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“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variant: I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

“Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate?
-Eriond”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Source: Sorceress of Darshiva

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“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”

William H. Gass (1924–2017) Fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
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“Speak to me."
"I hate you."
"Okay." Mad Rogan let go of me. "You're fine.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

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“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Source: VALIS
Context: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'

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“I hate mornings. They start so early.”

Source: Plum Spooky

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“If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
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“I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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“I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

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“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous, everyone hasn't met me yet.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Quoted in Bob Fenster, Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros (2005), p. 37
Variant: I told my psychiatrist everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous; everyone hasn't met me yet.

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“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”

Source: The Godfather

“Hate is the father of all evil.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

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“sometimes I hate you,"
she said.”

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

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“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

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“Are you becoming what you've always hated?”

Source: Hollywood

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“There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Foreword to Radio Replies Vol. 1, (1938) page ix
Variant: There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.

“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

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“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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“Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”

Martha Grimes (1931) American crime writer and literature professor

Source: Dakota

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“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Context: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

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“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”

Stanza 1.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
Source: If: A Father's Advice to His Son
Context: If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”

Eleanor Hibbert (1906–1993) English novelist

Source: Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria

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“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
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“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927)
Variant: If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

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Jon Stewart photo

“Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
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“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

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“He's gonna be fine," I confirmed.
Can we see him?" Iggy asked.
Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever