Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hatred Quotations

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.