“I love Humanity but I hate humans”
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
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Variant: I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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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)
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
Introduction to "National Brotherhood Week"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Orson Welles, "Race hate must be outlawed" (an editorial), Free World (July, 1944). http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-race-hate-must-outlawed/ <br class="br">Source: [Higham, Charles, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1985, 216, 0-312-31280-6, https://books.google.com/books?id=pJBlaIC-VG4C&lpg=PA216&dq=%22race%20hate%20isn't%20human%20nature%22&pg=PA216#v=onepage&q=%22race%20hate%20isn't%20human%20nature%22&f=false]
“I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.”
Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World
Source: Dead to the World
“The only people I really hate are servants. They are not really human beings at all.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Context: The only people I really hate are servants. They are not really human beings at all. As attributed without citation in At Home by Bill Bryson, Chapter V, "The Scullery and the Larder" p. 111
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Optimism
Poetry quotes, Poems of Pleasure (1900)
Context: I find a rapture linked with each despair,
Well worth the price of anguish. I detect
More good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.
“Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.”
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer
The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.
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