George Washington Quotes

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

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

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I am astonished at the strong feeling of dislike and contempt—I might almost say hatred—which the bulk of the whites have for their black neighbours.

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

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

From the Moment that Men give themselves wholly up to a Party, they abandon their Reason, and are led Captive by their Passions. The Cause they espouse, presents such bewitching Charms, as dazzle the judgment; and the Side they oppose, such imaginary Deformity, that no Opposition appears too violent; nor any Arts to blacken and ruin it, incapable of a specious Varnish

You must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

… vulgar motive of national antipathy ...

As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

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

I do not hate Andrew Luck.

American hate is not new - and it is not scarce.

So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.