Quotes About Hatred And Ignorance

#1. The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

Wes Fesler

#2. They persistently refused to support either armed party and believed that both sides were but the reflection of one reality, and the true enemies were not people, but ideology, hatred, and ignorance.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Magnus Hirschfeld

#4. Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

Daryl Davis

#5. Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Kristin Cast

#6. Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Dalai Lama

#7. The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Cornel West

#8. How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

Maimonides

#10. It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

Gaynor Arnold

#11. The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.

Voltaire

#12. People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred.

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#13. On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

H.L. Mencken

#14. All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Pema Chodron

#15. When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

Paul Harris

#16. Actions rooted in greed, hatred, or ignorance bring unpleasant results.

Joseph Goldstein

#17. The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.

Dainin Katagiri

#18. What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Delores Phillips

#19. Imagine living in a world where we no longer believe that war can lead to peace. War can't lead to peace anymore than ignorance can lead to knowledge. War leads to premature death, pain, suffering, hatred, fear and more separation.

Renee Paule

#20. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#21. Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

Michael Jackson

#22. Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Clarence Darrow

#23. The reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

Danilo Kis

#24. Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#25. My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

Ryan White

#26. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Catherynne M Valente

#28. Place a weapon in the hands of
Greed, hatred, especially of ignorance
You've created innocent deaths
That wasn't neccasary

R.K. Cowles

#29. The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.

Sam Harris

#30. Authentic happiness can only come from the long-term cultivation of wisdom, altruism, and compassion, and from the complete eradication of mental toxins, such as hatred, grasping, and ignorance.

Carmine Gallo

#31. When you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Ann M. Martin

#32. In a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

David Mitchell

#33. MONEY
There are people who believe that money is God and there are others who believe that money is the devil. Both are in ignorance. Money is merely a medium of exchange. Do not compare this medium to God, dirt or devil. It is the greed or hatred of man that labels money as 'good' or 'bad'.

Sirshree

#34. I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.

Giles Duley

#35. The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

Tariq Ramadan

#36. Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Roxane Gay

#37. I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

Dean Koontz

#38. Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.

Lila Bowen

#40. Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.

Bruce Weinstein

#41. Don't mistake:
Kindness with weakness;
Assertiveness with arrogance;
Self-defense with hatred;
Self-care with vanity;
Faith with ignorance.

Charles F. Glassman

#42. Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

D. Allen Miller