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“Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.”

World Persons Home Passion Emotion Health Habit Hatred Sick Victim Hospitals Places Of Peace

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“When I observe myself and find that I am generating anger, ill will, or animosity, I realize that I am the first victim of the hatred or animosity I am generating within myself. Only afterwards do I start harming others. And if I am free from these negativities, nature or God Almighty starts rewarding me: I feel so peaceful.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Realizing Hatred Victim Ill Peaceful Negativity Almighty Animosity Ill Will Harming Others

Author:S. N. Goenka

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.”

Thinking Important Violence Possibility Deserve Hatred Victim Refuse Innocent Pursue Innocence Naive Genesis Naivete

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.”

People Men Individual Hatred Victim Deeper Commit Contempt

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.”

Violence Hatred Victim Dedicated

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.”

Author:CeCe McDonald

“I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.”

People Stills Nations Hatred Died Victim Convinced Auschwitz

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of waxy blooms. So what did they need poison for? Couldn't they just be bitter? They weren't like rattlesnakes, they didn't even eat what they killed. The way she boiled it down, distilled it, like her hatred. Maybe it was a poison in the soil, something about L.A., the hatred, the callousness, something we didn't want to think about, that the plant concentrated in its tissues. Maybe it wasn't a source of poison, but just another victim.”

Thinking Way Want Needs Source Hatred Victim Plant Bitter Heat Poison Soil Neglect Tissues Like Her Poisonous Drought Rattlesnakes Callousness Oleanders

Author:Janet Fitch

“There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.”

Needs Self Hatred Victim Curse Murderer Self Hatred

Author:Thornton Wilder

“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.”

“Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.”

Mind Soul Inspiration Justice Race Higher Hatred Victim Social Justice Poison Faculty Unfortunate Chill Viruses Freeze

Book:Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

“I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.”

Science Found Boys Hatred Accounts Victim Revenge Tyranny Minorities Midst Territory Refuge Lacking Athletic Oppressors Prowess Physical Strength

Author:Freeman Dyson

“He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.”

People Ifs Hate Peace Enemy Risk Letting Go Hatred Victim Seeds Martyr Sowing Can't Let Go

Author:William J. Clinton

“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. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.”

Men Want Giving Feels Mind Doe Pain Hate Individual Class Objects Concerned Hatred Anger Aim Victim Angry Harm Thieves Angry Man Informers

Book:The Works of Aristotle

Source: The Works of Aristotle