171 Hate Quotes to Inspire Love and Forgiveness

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Hate is a lack of imagination. - Graham Greene

Hate is a lack of imagination. — Graham Greene

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred. — J. C. Ryle

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide. — Kurt Vonnegut

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey. — Kristen Ashley

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. - Maya Angelou

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — Maya Angelou

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation. - Tyga

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation. — Tyga

The worst hatred is that of relatives. — Tacitus

Hatred -- The anger of the weak. - Alphonse Daudet

Hatred -- The anger of the weak. — Alphonse Daudet

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Coretta Scott King

Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Coretta Scott King

Hate the sin, love the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated. — George Macdonald

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. — George Washington Carver

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY! — Dylan Moran

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. - George Harrison

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. — George Harrison

Short Hate Quotes

  • Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other. — Ibn Taymiyyah
  • Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. — Euripides
  • I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. — Dick Gregory
  • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. — Andre Gide
  • To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate. — Al-Ghazali
  • When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
  • Love hurts more than hate. — Michael Todd
  • No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. — Plato

Hate Image Quotes

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. - Hafez quote

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. — Hafez

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. - Fannie Lou Hamer quote

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. - Caligula quote

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. — Caligula

I ain't never been hater. I ain't got no time. - Tyga quote

I ain't never been hater. I ain't got no time. — Tyga

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. - Bob Marley quote

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley

Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. - Cristiano Ronaldo quote

Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me. - J. Cole quote

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me. — J. Cole

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer - Nas quote

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer — Nas

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor quote

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. - Clarence Darrow quote

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. — Clarence Darrow

I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something. - Conor McGregor quote

I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something. — Conor McGregor

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. - Bette Davis quote

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. — Bette Davis

I hate writing, I love having written. - Dorothy Parker quote

I hate writing, I love having written. — Dorothy Parker

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. - John Steinbeck quote

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. - Hunter S. Thompson quote

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. — Hunter S. Thompson

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want. - Heath Ledger quote

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want. — Heath Ledger

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. - Mahatma Gandhi quote

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. — Mahatma Gandhi

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. - Fannie Lou Hamer quote

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. — Fannie Lou Hamer

People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. - Megan Fox quote

People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. — Megan Fox

Hate quote Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

Twisted Hate Quotes

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. — John Milton

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate. — Gregory David Roberts

Hate quote The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands. — Karin Boye

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . . — Alice Childress

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state. — Ozzy Osbourne

Hate quote Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength. — Alber Elbaz

Sad Hate Quotes

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. — John Lennon

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey

I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure in the hip-hop marketplace, and for him to go away for 8 months, you know it's sad for hip-hop as a whole. — Fabolous

Hate quote No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. — Frank Ocean

I hate myself, and I want to die - Kurt Cobain

I hate myself, and I want to die — Kurt Cobain

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. - Osamu Dazai

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. — Osamu Dazai

Hate quote Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. — Stephen Chbosky

Terrorism is obviously on everybody's mind. The other day my son says to me, 'Daddy, how come the bad men hate us?' How sad is that? I actually got tears in my eyes - because he's 18. What kind of a moron am I raising? — Greg Giraldo

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack. — Coco Chanel

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do? — Josephine Baker

Haters Will Hate Quotes

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you. — George Washington Carver

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you. — Sinead O'Connor

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything. — Sayings

Hate quote The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; But, it is fear.
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; But, it is fear.

Haters will say what they want, but their hate will never stop you from chasing your dream — Justin Bieber

Love Not Hate Quotes

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me. — Marilyn Monroe

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Hate quote Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let
Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes it's best to be quiet.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. — Huey Newton

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. — Erik Erikson

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. — Kurt Cobain

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. — Queen Victoria

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world. — Billy Graham

Love Or Hate Quotes

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. — Eminem

Love or hate me, I stay hate free They say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me — Lil Wayne

I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character. — Justina Chen

Hate quote To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. — Johnny Cash

"Love me or hate me, I promise it won't make or break me." — Lil Wayne

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things. — Empedocles

Hate quote People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. — Rick Warren

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela

That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between — Mike Stud

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love And Hate Quotes

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. — Mother Angelica

Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell. — Shams Tabrizi

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou

Hate quote Its always wrong to hate, but its never wrong to love.
Its always wrong to hate, but its never wrong to love.

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. — Pietro Aretino

Smile more than you cry, Give more than you take, and Love more than you Hate. — Drake

Hate quote I will permit no one to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate them.
I will permit no one to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate them.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Thomas Merton

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. - Pythagoras

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras

Love Or Hate Me Quotes

You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me - Shahrukh Khan

You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me — Shahrukh Khan

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso. — Kanye West

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think. - Madonna Ciccone

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think. — Madonna Ciccone

Hate me or love me, you can’t stop me. — Jake Paul

Love it or hate it, this is me, this is who I am! — Nicki Minaj

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between. — Joe Royle

Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons. — Kobe Bryant

You could love me or hate me I swear it won't make me or break me. I'm goin where ever the money takes me. — Lil Wayne

I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me. — Pink

It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me, that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. — Harlan Ellison

Love Me Or Hate Me Quotes

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me. — Cormega

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me. — Mario Balotelli

I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle. — Kanye West

No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you. — Rick Riordan

Love me or hate me,I don't care.I'm doing what i like.I'm happy. — Miley Cyrus

Love me or hate me...you're gonna watch me. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me. — Patrice O'Neal

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3 — Tyra Banks

Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth. — Caroline Manzo

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. — Leo Buscaglia

Love Hate Relationship Quotes

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk. - Alan Rickman

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk. — Alan Rickman

I have a love-hate relationship with performing. - Sarah Brightman

I have a love-hate relationship with performing. — Sarah Brightman

You can’t make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe it’s righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soul—which is you—and God is one of love. And where there’s pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind. — Harold Klemp

Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. — African Proverbs

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder. — Werner Herzog

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. — William E. Simon

If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation. — Tony Stewart

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. — Ed Koch

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. — Larry Wall

Love And Hate Relationship Quotes

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body. — Demi Moore

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up. — Chelsea Peretti

There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the standards, the city in which all who have anything to do with the arts dream of working and succeeding. — Harold C. Schonberg

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. — Daniel Handler

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it. — Jimmy Chamberlin

We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos. — Ron Galella

I don't recommend surgery at all. Women's bodies are beautiful as they are, and I've had a love/hate relationship with my breasts my whole life. — Pamela Anderson

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. — Daniel H. Wilson

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world. — Shalom Harlow

Anger Quotes

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. — Chinese Proverbs

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper. — Henri Nouwen

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Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions. — Nouman Ali Khan

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be. — Charles Spurgeon

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust. — Thomas Aquinas

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. — Dalai Lama

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. — William Arthur Ward

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

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More Hate Quotes

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it. - Chris Brown quote

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it. — Chris Brown

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years. - Beatrix Potter quote

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years. — Beatrix Potter

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. - Ovid quote

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. — Ovid

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. - Frank Ocean quote

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. — Frank Ocean

I hate women because they always know where things are. - Voltaire quote

I hate women because they always know where things are. — Voltaire

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. - Orson Welles quote

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. — Orson Welles

You lose a lot of time, hating people. - Marian Anderson quote

You lose a lot of time, hating people. — Marian Anderson

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that. - Arnold Schwarzenegger quote

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate - Marvin Gaye quote

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate — Marvin Gaye

I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak. - Woody Allen quote

I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak. — Woody Allen

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela quote

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. — Nelson Mandela

In Conclusion

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