“I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.” ThinkingMayDiseaseJokesHatredMicrosoft Author:Linus Torvalds
“Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” Can DoDiseaseHatredHarmonyCuresLove LifeBitternessOnly Love Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.” HeartSufferingHateLiteratureVisionSeeingSorrowDiseaseHatredBurdenPoison Author:Aeschylus
“Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.” IfsWorldHumansHeartKindPersonsWarWholeMomentsFallEvilWealthDealsGraceRightsCrimeChangedOffersDiseaseRacismHatredMiserySilentHungerHuman RightsSpreadDiscriminationCuresDenialAcknowledgeBordersPausesAirborne Author:Philip Yancey
“...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.” WorldCausesRaceSadnessSourceDiseaseHatredMiseryAnguish Book:Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel Source: Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel
“Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.” WarPoliticalJusticeEconomicBuildingConflictDiseaseHatredDollarsInjusticeInternationalAttackingDisobedienceStarvationServitudePreoccupationIlliteracyWorld Hunger Author:Daniel Berrigan