Quotes About Hatred

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

— Bertrand Russell

Hate is more lasting than dislike.

— Adolf Hitler

Everyone hates a martyr; it’s no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

— Edgar Watson Howe

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

— Booker T. Washington

When our hatred is too keen it puts us beneath those whom we hate.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

— Cyril Connolly

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love to haste but they detest at leasure.

— Lord Byron

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class’s own worst enemy.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

— Bertrand Russell