There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
—Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
—Elie Wiesel
Being in love is a strange thing. Even when you hate the person for saying or doing something, you don’t stop loving them. You may want to or even go as far to say you won’t, but when you love them, truly love them, it never goes away.
—Shey Stahl in Black Flag
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
—Jack Handey
I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases 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.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
—Don Marquis
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
—Eldridge Cleaver
Hate is a lot like love. It’s warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.
—Heather Demetrios in Something Real
I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
—Hunter S. Thompson
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
—Jean Cocteau
War creates peace like hate creates love.
—David L. Wilson
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say.
—Jack Handey
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting… but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.
—Kurt Vonnegut
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
—Friedrich Nietzsche