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“Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.”

Hate Fear Human Nature Hatred

Book:Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...

Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...

“Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.”

Source: The View From The Ground

“In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.”

Thinking Mind Hate Strong Fear Doors Capacity Intense Tendencies Cowardice Nests

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.”

Hate Nations Fear Religious Moral Atheism Rage Patriotic Pretense Sects

Book:The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations...

Source: The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations...

“Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”

Giving May Remember Hate Winning Fear Challenges Atheism Hatred Rage Hate You Petty Discouraged Great Presidents Us Presidential Inspirational Presidential Silent Majority

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”

“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”

Men May Hate Fear Scary Being True Despise Despised

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

Way Hate Fear Pure Hatred Anger Yeah Bottom Terror One Way Icy

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."”

People Men Way Hard Hate Fear Learning Atheism Ignorance Hard Work Stupidity Rage Ignorant Novelists Resentment Wiser Caution Cradle Humorists Hard Way Ignorant People Cats Cradle Bokonon

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.”

Men Ends Hate Wish Fear Understanding Secret Wife Relationship Understood Adults Mistress

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.”

Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice

“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”

Author:James M. Cain

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

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Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.”

Hate Fear Love You Possibility Hatred Fearful No Fear Love Or Hate

Book:Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst

Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Source: Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace

“Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.”

World Way Giving Feelings Desire Hate Fear Consciousness Seeing This World Constant God Love Temples Way To Live Giving Love Autobiography Of A Yogi

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.”

Hate Fear Response Humiliate

Book:The Collected Edition: The human factor

Source: The Collected Edition: The human factor

“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”

World Hate Fear Impossible Guilt Our World

Author:William Saroyan

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

Book:Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”

Knows Hate Fear Tears

Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

“Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.”

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Book:Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.”

Book:Double Indemnity

Source: Double Indemnity

“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”

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Author:George Washington Carver

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

Faces Hate Wish Fear Natural Simple Honest Difficulty Obstacles Envy Frank Whim Unafraid Jealousy Envy

Book:Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.”

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Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.”

Hate Fear Hatred Philosophical Concealed

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.”

Mind Humans Joy Hate Fear Blood Atheism Misery Rage Treasure Beast Sand Misfortunes Witch Plague Wild Beasts

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”

Philosophy Hate Causes Fear Results Violence Positive Ignorance Cruelty Equations Theologian Polymaths

Author:Averroes