#hatred

But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#crime #degrade #fear #hatred #oppression

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conditional #conditional-love #conflict #conscience #defense

When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#hatred #meetings #mood #music

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hatred #revenge

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#english #except #france #god #hatred

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#instrument #lord #love #make #me

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#destroy #failed #hated #hatred #immutable

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#definitely #fear #feel #forward #hatred

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#bad #denigrate #emotionally #enjoy #fill

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#hatred #must #stifle #voice