George Steiner Quotes

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. Nations had risen against nations, employing the subtlest devices of mechanism and mind to waste, and excruciate, and overthrow. The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other. Wheel within wheel, the vast machine was instinct with the restless spirit of desolation.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.