Seanan McGuire Quotes

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Muslims are like wild dogs. You can't deal with them, you can only kill them.

A Mexican is not as good as a dog and isn’t even worth a bullet to kill him.

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

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.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

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.

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

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

Get those goddamned niggers! And get those goddamned white niggers.

Kill All Foreigners in 3 Months.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

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

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.