Idries Shah Quotes

Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

The game women play is men.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

There is nothing Holy about hatred.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he corrected."Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?"

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

No one ever hates without a cause.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

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

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.