What you want me to say is, I love you. Here’s the truth: I hate you, you little slut. You make me sick. Brighton Rock 1947 [US: Young Scarface] starring Richard Attenborough & Carol Marsh & Hermione Baddeley & William Hartnell & Harcourt Williams & Wylie Watson & Nigel Stock & Reginald Purdell & George Carney & Charles Goldner & Alan Wheatley, director John Boulting, Pinkie’s recording
Brought up in a concrete jungle on glue and hate. The Football Factory 2004 starring Danny Dyer & Frank Harper & Neil Maskell & Roland Manookian & Tamer Hassan & Dudley Sutton & John Junkin & Jamie Foreman & Kara Tointon et al, director Nick Love
A real grievance can be resolved. Differences can be resolved. But an imaginary hurt – a slight – that motherfucker gonna hate you till the day he dies. Hoffa 1992 starring Jack Nicholson & Danny De Vito & Armand Assante & J T Walsh & John C Reilly & Frank Whaley & Kevin Anderson & John P Ryan & Robert Prosky & Natalie Nogulich & Nicholas Pryor et al, Hoffa to sidekick
You’re on a hate binge. The Big Heat 1953 starring Glenn Ford & Gloria Grahame & Jeanette Nolan & Alexander Scourby & Jocelyn Brando & Lee Marvin & Adam Williams & Kathryn Eames & Peter Whitney et al, director Fritz Lang, fellow rozzer
Glover: God hates me; that’s what it is.
Gibson: Hate him back; it works for me. Lethal Weapon 1987 starring Mel Gibson & Danny Glover & Gary Busey & Mitchell Ryan & Tom Atkins & Darlene Love & Traci Wolfe & Jackie Swanson & Ebonie Smith et al, director Richard Donner
Everybody hates me. Except my mother. Clash by Night 1963 starring Terence Longdon & Jennifer Jayne & Harry Fowler & Alan Wheatley & Peter Sallis & John Arnatt & Hilda Fenemore & Arthur Lovegrove & Vanda Godsell & Richard Carpenter, director Montgomery Tully, Victor
Nobody wants me. Even my mother and farther hate me. Everybody hates me. American Graffiti 1973 starring Richard Dreyfuss & Ron Howard & Harrison Ford & Paul Le Mat & Charles Martin Smith & Candy Clark & Wolfman Jack & Bo Hopkins & Kathleen Quinlan et al, director George Lucas, little sister in car
I even loved your hate and your hardness. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 starring Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor & Burl Ives & Judith Anderson & Jack Carson & Madeleine Sherwood & Larry Gates & Vaughn Taylor, director Richard Brooks, Big Moma to Big Daddy
I hate him, Odo. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e19: Duet, Kira
I hate the Gamma Quadrant. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e7: Starship Down, Quark
I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start. Star Trek: Voyager s4e4: Nemesis, freedom fighter to Chakotay
He [Joseph Goebbels] wanted to arouse hatred. I think he believed in hatred. Stephane Roussel, Berlin reporter
All guilty. All Americans were legitimate targets for attack. We wanted this country to taste a little bit of what it had been dishing out ... I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground, Weatherwoman, 2002
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard Nixon
Why do they hate us so much? The Queen 2006 starring Helen Mirren & Michael Sheen & James Cromwell & Helen McCrory & Alex Jennings & Roger Allam & Sylvia Syms & Tim McCullan & Douglas Reith & et al, director Stephen Frears, Charles to Queen
I’ve never been hated like that before. ibid. Queen to Blair
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult. Elizabeth II, 1957 Christmas broadcast
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated. Martin Luther King
3Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says ‘love your enemies’, he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate ... Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther King
Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonises it. Hatred darkens life; life illuminates it. Martin Luther King
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds. Henry Brooks Adams, 1838-1918
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal. Pali Tipitaka
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated. George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes I find it easier to despise someone than to love them. Boardwalk Empire s5e2: The Good Listener, van Alden, HBO 2014
Twenty-four-year-old Josie Cunningham became infamous after getting a breast enlargement at the taxpayers’ expense. The outrage increased when her local council provided free taxis to take her kids to school. Josie: The Most Hated Woman in Britain? Channel 4 2015
More outrage: today it’s selling tickets to the birth of her third child. ibid.
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. Bertrand Russell, Face To Face, BBC 1959
There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell! Lord Byron, The Corsair
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. Lord Byron, Don Juan
He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater. Samuel Johnson
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But hating, my boy, is an art. Ogden Nash
The man you love to hate. Billing for Erich von Stronheim, The Heart of Humanity
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. Jean Genet, The Blacks, 1959
Hate crimes do more than threaten the safety and welfare of all citizens. They inflict on victims incalculable physical and emotional damage and tear at the very fabric of free society. New York Hate Crimes Act 2000
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Baruch Spinoza, proposition 43
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it. Baruch Spinoza, proposition 44
When we don’t know who to hate, we hate ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk