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All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.
james buchanan— 1857 Onfinally achieving his country's highest politicaloffice at the age of 65.
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.
— On his stated opposition to the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese at the end of World War II, as quoted in Newsweek (11 November 1963)
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
harper lee— Pt. 1, ch. 11
— Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
He falsely asserted that Jews hated Christians so much that they never met them without ejaculating curses on their heads, thus pretending that the bigotry and intolerance of the Jews was equal to those qualities inherent in the breasts of Dominican friars.
elias hiam lindo— Of Dominican friar Nicholas de Valencia
— The Jews of Spain and Portugal (1848) pp57-8
Although he reputedly hated the label of ‘guru’, Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the ‘the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow’ and Robert Heller described him as ‘the greatest man in the history of management’, praise indeed for a man who described himself as ‘just an old journalist’.
Peter Drucker— Robert Heller and Alistair Schofield (2006) "Peter J Drucker (1909~2005)" on extensor.co.uk
By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free, All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty. This, only this, the rigid Law persues, This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
samuel johnson— London: A Poem (1738), lines 158–161.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Bible (Old Testament)— Proverbs 14:20.
I was never more hated than when Itried to be honest? On the other hand,I've never been more loved and appreciated than when Itried to'justify'and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friendstheincorrect, absurd answersthey wishedtohear.
— 1952 Invisible Man, epilogue.
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor— Quoted in the Observer, 28 Aug1957.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.
bertrand russell— 1928 Sceptical Essays.
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782
Mary Godwin Shelley— 1818 Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein, ch.10.
So I went over there and, I’m delighted to say, the play flopped. I hated New York. I loathed it.
ian carmichael— After the failure of the broadway run of Boeing-Boeing.
— New York Times obituary 9 February 2010
I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.
chris cornell— NYROCK: Interview with Chris Cornell (1999-10-01). Retrieved on 2006-07-03.
I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.
dionysius i of syracuse— Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 11
And everything that he saw before himHe despised or hated.
mikhail lermontov— "The Demon" (1830)
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
charlotte brontë— Helen Burns to Jane (Ch. 8)
I loved my country, and I hated him.
lord byron— The Vision of Judgment, lxxxiii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
He’d grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did.
william ford gibson— Ch. 2 (Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988))
When I was young I hated my body because it was so thin -- now I try not to look at it too much because it's so old. There perhaps might have been just six months when I felt comfortable with it -- when I discovered alcohol for the first time and learnt to drive and was fattening out and had just met your mother.
Peter Greenaway— Philip (8 1/2 Women)
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
learned hand— "A Fanfare for Prometheus" (29 January 1955); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 131.
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity it is, in a word, bourgeois and so it attracts all of the same gripes.
neal stephenson— "Class Struggle on the Desktop"
All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty. This, only this, the rigid Law persues.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, London: A Poem (1738), lines 159-160.
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
— Frederick William Robertson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 298.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
— Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre (1847), Helen Burns in Ch. 8.
Although he reputedly hated the label of ‘guru’, Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the ‘the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow’ and Robert Heller described him as ‘the greatest man in the history of management’, praise indeed for a man who described himself as ‘just an old journalist’.
— Robert Heller and Alistair Schofield (2006) "Peter J Drucker (1909~2005)" on extensor.co.uk
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
Christopher Marlowe— Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1592), Act I, scene 1.
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
— Australia must follow Washington
I've always hated crossbows. Take too long to load!
— Who: Yoren
— Source: Episode 2x3, "What is Dead May Never Die"
— Note: Character, a Night's Watch recruiter, has been confronted by Lannister soldiers looking for Gendry, a boy in Yoren's caravan. After refusing to disarm, and being shot by a Lannister crossbow, he says this line, charging the Lannister soldiers as he shouts the second part. Ultimately he is overpowered and executed by the leader of the soldiers, Ser Amory Lorch.
