Quotes on Love Hate

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

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.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.