Love Not Hate Quotes:

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

- Sophocles

source: Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.63, Penguin

topic: Hate, Born, Love Not Hate

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

- Bryan Adams

topic: Forgiveness, Hate, Men, Goodwill, Love Not Hate

We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Hate, Law Of Attraction, Harm, Love Not Hate

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Positive, Buddhist, Hate, Meditation And Yoga, Daily Buddhist

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

topic: Hate, Anger, Racism, Love Not Hate, Hate The World

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

- Jonathan Swift

source: 'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

topic: Love, Hate, Religion, Love And Hate, Satirist

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

- Andre Gide

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love And Hate, Trustworthiness

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 murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, Fear, Liars, Media Violence, Kings And Love

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Hate, Love Is, Anime, Love And Hate, Indifference And Apathy

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

topic: God, Hate, Light, Love Not Hate, Hate God

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love And Hate, Indifference And Apathy

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Love, Hate, Men, Love Not Hate, I Hate Love

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Hate, Love Is, Opposites, Love And Hate, Indifference And Apathy

All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.

- George W. Bush

topic: Brother, Hate, Inspiration, Islam Is Peace, Muslim Faith