David Sedaris Quotes

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

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

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

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.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

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.

There is serious Islamophobia in the world.

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 hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.