Graham Greene Quotes

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

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.

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.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

I feel it's a lot easier to hate or dislike someone that you see as different. It is a lot harder to hate them when you see they are just the exact same as you.

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

It is hate that binds people together. Love is personal.

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

I always say that tolerance doesn't depend on a country, because there is hate everywhere.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.