Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Anger destroys your soul.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Hate destroys the hater.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.