Quotes about hate
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Brandon Mull photo
Kurt Tucholský photo
Leo Tolstoy photo

“Love those you hate you.”

Source: Anna Karenina

Cassandra Clare photo
Rick Riordan photo
Evelyn Waugh photo

“No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

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Sarah Dessen photo

“Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Cassandra Clare photo
George Eliot photo

“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”

Source: Adam Bede

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“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
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Ann Brashares photo
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“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”

Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist

Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

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Aaron Allston photo
Emily Brontë photo
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Holly Black photo

“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

Rick Riordan photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Meg Cabot photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo

“Love can fuel hate.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Evercrossed

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“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”

Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) American activist

"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)

“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Seduce the Darkness

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Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

In reference to the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an organization which was joined by King, whose church's meeting room was used to hold monthly meetings for the Montgomery chapter the council. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
1950s
Context: Although the Montgomery council never had a large membership, it played an important role. As the only truly interracial group in Montgomery, it served to keep the desperately needed channels of communication open between the races.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. In providing an avenue of communication, the council was fulfilling a necessary condition for better race relations in the South.

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Dick Gregory photo

“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”

Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur

Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

Anna Quindlen photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Aleister Crowley photo
Neal Shusterman photo
Cecily von Ziegesar photo

“I hate loneliness, but it loves me.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 42 [Burīchi 42]

Sylvia Plath photo

“I hated to serve men in any way.”

Source: The Bell Jar

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“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

Actually said by Giuseppe Baretti, February 13, 1766. The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#19, retrieved 24 October 2018
Misattributed

Howard Dean photo

“I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization.”

Howard Dean (1948) American political activist

Maggie Haberman, "Dean's Howling For Shot To Lead DNC Into Future Battle To Head Democrats", New York Daily News, January 30, 2005. Retrieved from Proquest May 12, 2016.

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“Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
Source: You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics

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Jean Racine photo

“I loved him too much not to hate him at all!”

Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!
Source: Hermione, Andromaque (1667), act II, scene I.

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“Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" or sometimes just "I hate quotations".
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Laurie Halse Anderson photo
Rick Riordan photo
Elie Wiesel photo
Richard Rohr photo

“The ego hates losing – even to God.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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Jodi Picoult photo
Cassandra Clare photo
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“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

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Anne Lamott photo

“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Traveling Mercies; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this to "my priest friend Tom"

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Thomas Hardy photo
Rachel Caine photo
Suzanne Collins photo
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Hayao Miyazaki photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“Hate destroys the hater…”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Variant: Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
Context: There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [... ] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.

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Patricia Highsmith photo
Rachel Caine photo
Rick Riordan photo

“I hate this plan,” I said. “Let’s do it.”

Source: The Sword of Summer

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“I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer

Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152

George Harrison photo

“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
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William Faulkner photo

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”

Source: Light in August

Cassandra Clare photo
Jo Walton photo
Joss Whedon photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo
Sarah Dessen photo
William Blake photo

“Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Argument
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)