I was born and lived for goodness and love. I was killed by the hatred of the elders just at the moment of their smallness.
Why do all rulers hate everyone who is against war in principle? Because they are all slaves to atavistic inertia. Try to speak loudly against the war – and you will immediately be judged for immorality. So, the war is moral.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
There is no love without hatred, just as there is no white without black! If you want love, you must hate.
Politics is anger, hatred, dislike.
— Volodymyr Vynnychenko
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Passion for wealth engenders worry, envy, deceit, hatred, curses, and countless other barriers to virtue.
—Leo Tolstoy
[During WWI] I hate war, I am tired of the whole business.
—J. Gresham Machen
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
—Charlie Chaplin
“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
—John Milton
I love treason but hate a traitor.
—Julius Caesar
Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.
—Julius Caesar
One day people will stop fighting, waging war, executing people, and will begin to love one another. This day cannot be evaded, for within every person’s soul lies love, not hatred, toward others. Let’s do all we can to reach this day more quickly.
—Leo Tolstoy
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.
—Charlie Chaplin
The gracious soul hates not only this or that particular sin, but the whole kind—everything that is sinful. True hatred is of the whole nature or kind. I hate every false way (Ps. 119:104).
—John Flavel
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
The intrinsic evil and filthiness that is in sin keeps back the gracious soul from it: Abhor that which is evil; hate it as hell itself (Rom 12:9).
—John Flavel
The sincere soul hates sin with an irreconcilable hatred. There was a time when sin and his soul fell out, but there never will be a time of reconciliation between them again.
—John Flavel
The upright soul hates sin in himself more than he hates it in any other, as a man hates a serpent in the hedge, but much more in his own bosom: But I see another law in my members…I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (Rom. 7:23, 21).
—John Flavel
So deep is the hatred that upright ones bear to sin that nothing pleases them more than the thoughts of a full deliverance from it.
—John Flavel
When you are a child of God, you will love the things that God loves. What you once hated you will love, and what you once loved, you will hate.
—D. L. Moody
To fall in love does not mean to love.
You can fall in love and hate.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The true reason why any despise *the new birth* is, because they hate *a new life*.
—John Owen
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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