Hatred

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
~ William S. Burroughs, in New Yorker Magazine (18 August 1997). Entry in journal (31 May 1997)

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is: What are they in a position to do about it?
~ William S. Burroughs

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
~ Willa Sibert Cather, The Song of the Lark (1915). Part VI: Kronborg. Chapter IX

She likes herself, yet others hates
For that which in herself she prizes;
And while she laughs at them, forgets
She is the thing that she despises.
~ William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret

'Tis strange how men find time to hate,
When life is all too short for love.
~ William Henry (W.H.) Davies, Forty New Poems (1918). Come, Let Us Find

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
~ Will Durst

Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids can't be all bad.
~ W.C. Fields, Attributed

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
~ William Hazlitt, Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims (1823).

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker (1826). On Reading Old Books (1821)

The cannibals burn their enemies and eat them in good-fellowship with one another: meek Christian divines cast those who differ from them but a hair's-breadth, body and soul into hell-fire for the glory of God and the good of his creatures! It is well that the power of such persons is not co-ordinate with their wills . . .
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker (1826). On the Pleasure of Hating

The definition of a true patriot is a good hater.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Round Table (1817). On Good Nature

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker (1826). On the Pleasure of Hating

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.
~ William Hazlitt, Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners (1821-1822). Why Distant Objects Please

If there is anything I hate, it is collecting.
~ William James, in The Letters of William James (1920). Letter to His Parents (Oct. 22, 1865)

The only problem with drawing Nixon is restraint. Your tendency is to let your feelings come out. He's such a loathsome son of a bitch, and he looks so loathsome.
~ William H. (Bill) Mauldin

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.
~ Dr. William C. Menninger

Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.
~ Liam O'Flaherty

Despise nobody, nor no Condition lest it come to be thine own.
~ William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude (1693). Personal Cautions

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
~ (William) Brad Pitt

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
~ Bertrand Arthur William Russell

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
~ George William (A.E.) Russell, The Living Torch (1937).

Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.
~ William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life (1939 play).

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
~ William Saroyan, The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1952).

All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
By inch-meal a disease!
~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest. Act II, scene ii

But when we in our viciousness grow hard --
O misery on't! -- the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments.
~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. Act III, scene xiii

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
~ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. Act I, scene i

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
~ William Shatner

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Throughout life people will make you mad
Disrespect you and treat you bad
Let God deal with the things they do
Cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
~ Will Smith, Just the Two of Us (2001).

Do I hate you? No! Not hate?
Hate's a word far too intense,
Too alive, to speak a state
Of supreme indifference.
~ William Wetmore Story, in Yale Book of American Verse (1912). Black Eyes

We hold our hate too choice a thing
For light and careless lavishing.
~ William Watson, from New Poems (1909). Hate

If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
~ Billy Wilder, Quoted in The Associated Press (28 March 2002). Oscar Winner Billy Wilder Dies

A friend of mine once said that hate is too important an emotion to waste on someone you don't like. And I've tried desperately to get my psyche in shape to more or less fend off any of those feeling that are going to mar my life.
~ Joe Williams

Anyone can hate.
It costs to love.
~ John Williamson

We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.
~ Marianne Williamson, CNN TV "Larry King Weekend" (14 October 2001).

Your neighbor is anyone who is in need. If you do not help your neighbor, your neighbor will hate you. And hate, when multiplied, threatens the safety and security of all of us.
~ Charles V. Willie, Address to Certificate Recipients at Harvard College, Cambridge MA (6 June 1996). The Civic Responsibility of Education Proclaimed

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
~ William Wycherley

An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.
~ William Butler Yeats, from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). A Prayer for My Daughter (June 1919).

At certain moments, always unforseen, I become happy. . . . I look at the strangers near as if I had known them all my life . . . everything fills me with affection. . . . It may be an hour before the mood passes, but lately I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate.
~ William Butler Yeats