The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their... energy is that of bringing and holding together--the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface and perc...eives it so exclusively that the devil of hatred, despite all his terror-inspiring cruelty, never is entirely free of ridicule and of a somewhat dilettantish aspect. One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You could not hate the cannibal they wrote Of, with the nostril bone-thrust, who could dote... On boiled or roasted fellow thigh and throat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We gave 'em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave 'em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to p...oison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don't you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this world there's room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and ...beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goosestepped us into misery and bloodshed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »