Eric Hoffer Quotes

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Love your enemies.

Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

If people become kinder to each other and begin to forgive some bitterness, if they begin to love their neighbor as the Most High loves us, then I am for it.

When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.

Love always overcomes hate.

Only love can heal hatred.

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.