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Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.
Oct 1, 2025
We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.
Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.
The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when niggas call i just don not pick up the phone.
There's a good reason for the media hating me. And once I came to grips with that fact, that there's a reason they should hate me, then it makes sense. One of the toughest things I had to do was learn to psychologically accept the fact that being hated was a sign of success.
What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred
I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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