Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

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

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on one thing they did, but I don't actually know them well enough to hate them.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it's like, 'You're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder. How can I help you?'

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.