More quotations tagged with “hatred”
The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
—James Thurber
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp
Antonio Rivera took refuge with other Nationalists in the Alcázar during the Spanish Civil War. As a pacifist, the youth refused at first to help defend the ancient stronghold, and was put on latrine duty. When the situation of the besieged became more desperate, he decided that it would not be inconsistent with his principles to aid in the defense, provided that he did not kill in hatred. He was assigned the position of loader to a heavy machine gun. It was said that he would give the signal to fire with the words: "Tirad—pero sin odio." (Fire—but without hatred. )
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
—Anne Lamott