Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

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

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

There's a lot of hate in the world.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

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

Non-Muslims with some justice now regard the Muslims as little better than animals.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation, or a distinct group by its least worthy members.

Beware of bad Asians

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

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