Mardy Grothe Quotes

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

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.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

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.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

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

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

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

It is a funny thing how hard it is to see the other fellow's point of view.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.