William Hazlitt Quotes

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

I could never hate anyone I knew.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

Love always overcomes hate.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

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.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.