Stephie Pahlavi Zan quote: “It’s very unchallenging and empty to hate. It takes power and stability to be kind. Love will always kill hate.”

“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

On Boxing (1987)

“Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“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 (1978–2020) American basketball player

“It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.”

Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress

FUSE Lady Gaga: On The Record (Part 3) HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7s1Ib7TGk

“Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril.”

Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer

I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (p. 150)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

“But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.
Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?”

N. K. Jemisin book The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), Chapter 12 (p. 144)

“They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.”

Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines

Quoted in " The day I met Imelda Marcos http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1000140.stm at BBC News (31 October 2000).
Context: When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.