Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Hate
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Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.
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There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
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There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
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Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.
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The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
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