Robin Morgan Quotes

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.

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.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

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...

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

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

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.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

Life's too short to hate.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.