Orson Scott Card Quotes

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

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.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

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

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.