This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by." - H. C. Mattern
"It was and it is to do all that can be done to eradicate an evil thing out of our civilization… a thing so incredibly wicked that it would not have been believable of modern man if it had not actually occurred. This evil, this wickedness began with intolerance and hate in a few men’s hearts. It spread until it almost wrecked the world. Now the obligation is to remember, not in hate, not in the spirit of revenge, but so that this spirit cannot ever flourish again so long as man remains on earth. And to this end, let us begin, each of us, by looking into our own hearts." - New York Times Editorial on the Holocaust NULL
"Oh how we hate one another for the love of God." - John Henry Newman, aka Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman
"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared – this must someday become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth." - Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time." - Harry Allen Overstreet
"When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace." - Amos Oz, birth name Amos Klausner
"Hate has no medicine." - Ghanaian Proverbs
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate." - George William Russell
"Hatred is entrenched in human nature. It is as old as man, as old as man’s desire to expunge it. It slumbers in all of us. It can awaken at any time. I am not sure if we can eradicate hate from our hearts, but of this I am certain: It must always be our goal." - Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov
"The sins that we should hate most are not those of our neighbor but our own. These are the only sins over which god has given us immediate power." - Raphael Simon, possibly also writes under Pseudonymous Bosch
"Hate is still the main enemy of the human race, the fuel that heats the furnaces of genocide." - Isidor Feinstein Stone
"Our first duty is not to hate ourselves; because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God." - Vivekananda, fully Sri or Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta NULL
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference." - Elie Wiesel, fully Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel
"I put the hatred aside for self-preservation. If you go on hating, it only hurts you - not the person that you hate. It prevents you from being all that you can be and from doing all that you want to do. It is a burden that slows you down." - Harold Gordon, born Hirshel Grodzienski
"Love confronts hate in the one way hate cannot comprehend, with something beyond itself - with compassion. Hate cannot go beyond itself. It draws its strength from the self's defense of self. Love lives to go beyond itself, drawing strength from that very act. Love can thus comprehend hate, integrating it into something larger. Slowly, hate is defeated as a grain of salt dissolves into the sweetness of a pond." - Franz Metcalf
"Hate is not conquered by hate; hate is conquered by love. This is law eternal." - Pāli Canon or Tipitaka or Pāli Tipitaka
"Let us become inspired by inherent beauty, and not impassioned by manufactured hate." - Nima Shirali
"If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find." - Alfred Whitney Griswold
"People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer." - Alice Duer Miller
"People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer." - Alice Duer Miller
"Hate, it is the anger of the weak." - Alphonse Daudet
"Anger is always concerned with individuals... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot." - Aristotle NULL
"Elderly Men... have lived many years; they have often been taken in, and often made mistakes; and life on the whole is a bad business. The result is that they are sure about nothing and under-do everything. They ‘think,’ but they never ‘know’; and because of their hesitation they always add a ‘possibly’ or a ‘perhaps’, putting everything this way and nothing positively. They are cynical; that is, they tend to put the worse construction on everything. Further, their experience makes them distrustful and therefor suspicious of evil. Consequently they neither love warmly nor hate bitterly, but... love as though they will some day hate and hate as though they will some day love. They are small-minded, because they have been humbled by life: their desires are set upon nothing more exalted or unusual than what will help them to keep alive... They live by memory rather than by hope; for what is left to them of life is but little as compared with the long past; and hope is of the future, memory of the past... Old men may feel pity, as well as young men, but not for the same reason. Young men feel it out of kindness; old men out of weakness, imagining that anything that befalls anyone else might easily happen to them." - Aristotle NULL
"Young men have strong passions, and tend to gratify them indiscriminately... They have as yet met with few disappointments. Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but in expectation; for expectation refers to the future, memory to the past, and youth has a long future before it and a short past behind it: on the first day of one’s life one has nothing at all to remember, and can only look forward... They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning; and whereas reasoning leads us to choose what is useful, moral goodness leads us to choose what is noble. They are fonder of their friends, intimates, and companions than older men are, because they like spending their days in the company of others, and have not yet come to value either their friends or anything else by their usefulness to themselves. All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They disobey Chilon’s precept by overdoing everything; they love too much and hate too much, and the same thing with everything else. They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it." - Aristotle NULL
"All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal." - Baltasar Gracián
"All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible in the service of the public weal. But this is only a [pretense] and a false image of love; for at bottom it is only hate." - Blaise Pascal
"Men despise religion; they hate it and fear it is true. To remedy this, we must begin by showing that religion is not contrary to reason; that it is venerable, to inspire respect for it; then we must make it lovable, to make good men hope it is true; finally, we must prove it is true. Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises the true good." - Blaise Pascal
"Men hate and despise religion, and fear it may be true." - Blaise Pascal
"I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." - Charles Caleb Colton
"We hate some people because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them." - Charles Caleb Colton
"There is a community of hatred. Hatred floods your mind with the ideas of the one you hate. Your thought reflects his, and you act in his spirit. If you wish to be like your enemy, to be wholly his, open your mind and hate him." - Charles Horton Cooley
"It is only the truly virtuous man who can love or hate others." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." - Coretta Scott King
"It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured." - Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
"It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured." - Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
"Hate burns up more energy than anything else, more than hard work, illness or justifiable worry. So when hatred is entering our hearts, let us just put it out, make room for pleasant thoughts instead, save our precious God-given energy for something worthy of it." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"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, fully Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt