Quotes on Love & Hatred

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.
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
   — Eleanor Roosevelt

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: "We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory."
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
   — Elie Wiesel

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget.
   — Hazrat Inayat Khan

This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one of them wrote these words, and I quote: "Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the hearts of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism."
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
   — Ann Landers

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
   — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
   — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
   — Allan K. Chalmers

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
   — Anais Nin

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
   — Barbara De Angeli