Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then.

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

When people get more me, they'll hate me.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.