“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1966-1977
Michael Heaton Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 6, 2003
“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1966-1977
“This is not about hating homosexuals. I don't. I love homosexuals.”
Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician
Prophetic Views Behind The News
KKMS 980-AM
Radio
2004-03-20, hosted by Jan Markell
on a proposed Minnesota state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage
2000s
“Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: Barfly
“They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
Context: We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Responding to a suggestion that he return to Hollywood to work on a script of Tender is the Night in a letter to his agent (10 January 1935)
Quoted, Letters
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
The whole thing baffles me.
My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)