Joseph Hall Quotes

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith

We find those who do not agree with us disagreeable.

… the strangest sight in the world—two races hating one another for the love of God

The Anglo-Irish of the Pale and the native Irish … hate one another as much as any two nations in the world ...

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

I've got news for you... both those idiots [Al Snow and the Rock] aren't your friends! They hate you! Everybody hates you! All the people at home, all these people in the arena hate you, and most importantly, Y2J hates you!

Never bend over for a Christian.

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.