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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778V
- Love
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
- Forgiveness
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin1924–1987“Notes of a Native Son” originally in Harper’s (November 1955)
Where there is fear there is aggression.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–19861st Public Talk, Berkeley, California (3 February 1969)
- Fear
Revenge⁠—the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!
Walter Scott1771–1832The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Vol. II, Ch. 6.
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Teachings on Love (2005) Full Circle Publishing
Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.
Audre Lorde1934–1992The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
- Race
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
Audre Lorde1934–1992The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890“Narrative of a Trip to Harar” (11 June 1855); published in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (June 1855)
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 190
- Advice
Where it concerns himself,
Who’s angry at a slander makes it true.
Ben Jonson1572–1637Catiline His Conspiracy (1611), Act III, scene i
- Truth & Lies
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, ch. xIn context
- Envy
- Love
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 6, “The New Poetry Movement”
- Comedy
He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’⁠—in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada
- Forgiveness
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Demian (1919), p. 182