Tennessee Williams Quotes

Hate is a lack of imagination.

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.

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

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.

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.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

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.

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

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

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

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

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.

The fear that ultimately leads to hate is something we need to change, and I want to do whatever I can to make the world a better place.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

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