This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Have you ever considered how dreadful it would be if our lives had no appointed end but went on forever? Can you imagine that as far as the eye can see into the future we should remain enmeshed in all the desires and troubles of this life and that all the ensuing envy, hatred and malice, our own and other people’s should continue to pile up undiminished? If you have ever considered how intolerable the burden of our life would be without the understood certainty that it has an appointed end, you know that death comes to all, even the most fortunate, not as an enemy but as a deliverance.
Death | Enemy | Envy | Future | Life | Life | Malice | People | Troubles |
Studs Terkel, fully Louis "Studs" Terkel
I believe that only by being in the presence of beauty and the great things in the world around us can man eventually get the goddam hatred of wanting to kill each other out of his system. We begin to understand, that we're only in this world such a short time it’s incredible we should spend these few years hating and killing each other.
Elie Wiesel, fully Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel
Some religious people abolish hatred because they’re religious. Others are fanatical, and they invoke hatred because they are religious. I believe that religion could be a marvelous way of humanizing society. Others believe that religion is here to serve fanatics, to punish, to chastise, to torture, to torment.
Keep hatred from you; let nothing tempt your mind to violence; hold on to love.
Harold Gordon, born Hirshel Grodzienski
I put the hatred aside for self-preservation. If you go on hating, it only hurts you - not the person that you hate. It prevents you from being all that you can be and from doing all that you want to do. It is a burden that slows you down.
Hate | Self | Self-preservation |
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
Art | Circumstances | Contempt | Freedom | Life | Life | Man | Responsibility | Work | World | Art |
Anton Chekhov, fully Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. And if the habit of prayer is seen to be so important for teaching a man to love his fellow men, this is because no answer is given to his prayers. Your love is based on hatred when you wrap yourself up in a certain man or woman on whom you batten as a stock of food laid by and, like dogs snarling at teach other round their trough, you fall to hating anyone who casts even a glance at your repast. you call it love, this selfish appetite. No sooner is love bestowed on you than (even as in your false friendships) you convert this free gift into servitude and bondage and, from the very moment you are loved, you begin to fancy yourself wronged.
Appetite | Habit | Important | Love | Man | Men | Nothing | Prayer | Servitude | Teach | Woman |
Anger is always concerned with individuals... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot.
All the irascible passions imply movement towards something... And if we wish to know the order of all the passions in the way of generation, love and hatred are first; desire and aversion, second; hope and despair, third; fear and daring, fourth; anger, fifth; sixth and last, joy and sadness, which follow from all the passions... yet so that love precedes hatred; desire precedes aversion; hope precedes despair; fear precedes daring; and joy precedes sadness.
Anger | Daring | Desire | Despair | Fear | Hope | Joy | Love | Order | Sadness |
André Gide, fully André Paul Guillaume Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love. He cannot stifle a predilection for dead cities.
Love |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
Civilization | Heart |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
There is a community of hatred. Hatred floods your mind with the ideas of the one you hate. Your thought reflects his, and you act in his spirit. If you wish to be like your enemy, to be wholly his, open your mind and hate him.
Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
The hatred of relatives is the most violent.