Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

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

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

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

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.

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...

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Hate won't solve anything.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

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.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.