* The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation.
o Les haines sont si longues et si opiniAtres que le plus grand signe de mort dans un homme malade, c'est la réconciliation
= Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688) De l'Homme 108

* We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
= Charles Caleb Colton Lacon, vol. I (1820)

* La haine, c'est la colère des faibles!
= Hatred is the anger of the weak.
= Alphonse Daudet, Lettres de mon Moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 19; John P. Macgregor (trans.) Letters from My Mill (New York: Taplinger, 1967) p. 18.

* When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity — that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
= Graham Greene, in The Power and the Glory (1940)

 * Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
= Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love (1963)

* Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it
= Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love (1963)

* Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
= Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love (1963)

 

* Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
= Lord Byron Don Juan Canto XIII (1823)