Great Throughts Treasury

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Cause | Example | Mother | Truth | Wisdom | Witness | Instruction |

Midge Decter, fully Midge Rosenthal Decter

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the... ecological chain of birthing, growing and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Children | Culture | Judgment | Society | Terror | Wisdom | Words | Youth | Society | Youth |

William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.

Heaven | Love | Rage | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

Our schoolbooks glorify war and hide its horrors. They inculcate hatred in the veins of the children. I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Children | Hate | Love | Peace | Teach | War | Wisdom |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Altogether, national hatred is something peculiar. You always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Culture | Wisdom |

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, born Vladimir Jabotinsky

In propaganda the appeal of love is slow and lumbering in comparison with the appeal of hatred. hatred is the piquant sauce which accelerates both the swallowing and digestion of ideas and policies.

Ideas | Love | Wisdom | Propaganda |

Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL

Often for fear of death men are seized by a hatred of life, forgetting that this fear is the fountain of all care.

Care | Death | Fear | Life | Life | Men | Wisdom |

Michel Simon

War. There is no solution for it. There is never a conqueror. the winner generates such hatred that he is ultimately defeated.

War | Wisdom |

Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Politics | Wisdom |

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.

Confidence | Neglect | Sincerity | Wisdom |

Al-Jāḥiẓ, full name Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī NULL

Man indeed hates the one whom he knows, turns against the one whom he sees, opposes the one whom he resembles, and becomes observant of the faults of those with whom he mingles; the greater the love and intimacy, the greater the hatred and estrangement.

Love | Man |

Dhammapada NULL

`He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’ – in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.

Will |

Albert Einstein

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.

Contempt | Crime | Individual | Men | People | Pride | Remorse | Wrong |