Clarence Darrow Quotes

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

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

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.

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

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.

I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.