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

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

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin)

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villian!
-Juliet 3.2. VS 79"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

"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."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."
— Jasper Fforde (The Big Over Easy)

""I hate Brooklyn"
-Jace Wayland"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
— Graham Greene (The End of the Affair)

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what YOU want. Go for it."
— Heath Ledger

"Love and hate have only one thing in common, they both hurt""
— Rowan Pruitt

"I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?"
— D.J. MacHale, Bobby Pendragon (The Quillan Games)

"And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin)

"Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him."
— Jon Stewart

"Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action. "
— Kat Stratford

"Love those you hate you."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them."
— Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead)

"I have so much hate that it has turned into love."
— Margaret Cho (I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight)

"Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?"
— Graham Greene

"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."
— Elbert Hubbard

""if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.""
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)

"Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")"
— Martin Luther King Jr. (A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral."
— Betty Greene

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

"You do not hate someone for something they did; you hate something that someone did."
— Dr مُعِزّة alIslam

"'No hatred'"
— Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)

"Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Religious fanaticism and hatred are a
world-devouring fire, whose violence
none can quench."
— Baháʼuʼlláh

"Love unites and hate disintegrates."
— Mohit.K.Misra

"Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

"A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much"

For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much"

Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? "
— Jim Goad (The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats)