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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.