Sunday, March 23, 2014 – Righteous Hate
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ~ Confucius
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. ~ Booker T. Washington
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. ~ Victor Hugo
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. ~ Voltaire
I hate victims who respect their executioners. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~ James Baldwin
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ~ Richard M. Nixon
You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. ~ Charlie Sheen
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ~ H. L. Mencken
I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one. ~ Mae West
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ~ William Blake
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ~ William Blake
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~ Will Rogers
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking. ~ William James
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. ~ Steve Martin
Race-hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. ~ Orson Welles
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. ~ Charlie Chaplin
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. ~ Blaise Pascal
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~ John Steinbeck
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. ~ Francis Bacon
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~ A. Whitney Brown
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People hate as they love, unreasonably. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ~ William Hazlitt
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it. ~ Clarence Darrow
I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do. ~ Lenny Bruce
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. ~ Horatio Nelson
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ~ Mason Cooley
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ~ Irving Berlin
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. ~ Jerry Lewis
“I hate you’ she said to me one afternoon. ‘I really, really hate you.’ Call me sensitive, but I couldn’t help but take it personally.” ~ David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
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
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. ~ Anaïs Nin
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. ~ Karl Kraus
Hatred is one long wait. ~ René Maran
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