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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
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
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor— Quoted in the Observer, 28 Aug1957.
I write because I hate being told. I didn't realise that for a long while. I thought it was I hated: that the unfairnesses that were explained as were wasn't.
Janice Galloway— HOW IT IS LIFE JUST HOW IT ISJUST HOW IT IS. BUT HOW IT IS1993 'Objective Truth and the Grinding Machine'. In Brown and Munro (eds) Writers Writing (1993).
So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her.You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you, and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon— 1932 Sunset Song.
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.
I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.
bruce bennett— Referring to his role in the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), as quoted in Please Don't Call Me Tarzan : The Life Story of Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett (2001) by Mike Chapman; also in "Herman Brix, 100; Olympian became actor known as Bruce Bennett" by Dennis McLellan in The Los Angeles Times (28 February 2007)
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
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
Hitler had a great dislike for the Danes for the following reason: the Danish king had been congratulated by Hitler on his birthday, and the king answered cryptically with 'Many thanks.' Hitler was said to have had an attack of rage. And ever since then Hitler hated Denmark.
rudolf mildner— To Leon Goldensohn (12 February 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
I loved my country, and I hated him.
lord byron— The Vision of Judgment, lxxxiii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
But take this with thee: if I was not form'd To prize a love like thine, a mind like thine, Nor dote even on thy beauty as I've doted On lesser charms, for no cause save that such Devotion was a duty, and I hated All that look'd like a chain for me or others (This even rebellion must avouch); yet hear These words, perhaps among my last that none E'er valued more thy virtues , though he knew not To profit by them…
lord byron— Act IV, scene 1
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.
So the pendulum swings, now violently, now slowly; and every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
william ralph inge— Democracy and the Future The Atlantic Monthly (March 1922)
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.
Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 77.
To persecute Makes a faith hated, and is furthermore No perfect witness of a perfect faith In him who persecutes.
— Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary, Act III, scene 4
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
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldn't find honest employment.
— Attributed to Mark Twain. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989). Never found by Twain authorities or the Twain Papers staff.
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery, and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
— Carolyn Wells, The Rest of My Life (1937), ch. 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.
And indeed you know those among you who violated the Sabbath, so We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated.
— 65 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
