Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

i like to think that im helping them by hating them

You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil." I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.