Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
You, the Spirit of the Settlement!. . . Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination. And we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go, as we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes, will always burn brighter than the fires that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques, always.
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They call their old friends and affirm their love for them, as well as detach themselves from them, and they try to get into as free a space as they can so they're really ready to go. They give away all their possessions and are as generous as possible. They give up old hatreds and grudges, and that's a wise intuitive thing, because it's much freer to live like that.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
