„Holding anger is a poison… It eats you from inside… We think that by hating someone we hurt them… But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.“

„We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies.“

—  Patrick Buchanan American politician and commentator 1938

2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)

„The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.“

—  Isobelle Carmody, kniha Alyzon Whitestarr

Zdroj: Alyzon Whitestarr

„Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.“

—  Dale Carnegie, kniha How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Zdroj: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 101.

„If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.“

—  Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author

„I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.“

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German scientist, satirist 1742 - 1799

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

„We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?“

—  Šantidéva 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685 - 763

„We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.“

—  Alice Walker American author and activist 1944

Zdroj: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

„If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.“

—  Douglas Adams English writer and humorist 1952 - 2001

Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)

„We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

Zdroj: Sceptical Essays

„We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton Novelist 1963

Anita's musings on Richard, the reluctant werewolf; unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)

„We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.“

—  Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943

„I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, kniha See Me

Zdroj: See Me

„We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!“

—  Ammon Hennacy American Christian radical 1893 - 1970

The Book of Ammon

„One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.“

—  William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Zdroj: Vanity Fair

„If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!“

—  Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951

Zdroj: Think Big (1996), p. 152

„But Aversion wee have for things, not only which we know have hurt us; but also that we do not know whether they will hurt us, or not.“

—  Thomas Hobbes, kniha Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 24
Leviathan (1651)

„We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?“

—  George Lakoff American linguist 1941

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1987)

„If the hunters think we do all things by chants and spells, they may believe so — it does not hurt them.“

—  Stephen Vincent Benét, kniha By the Waters of Babylon

By the Waters of Babylon (1937)
Kontext: If the hunters think we do all things by chants and spells, they may believe so — it does not hurt them. I was taught how to read in the old books and how to make the old writings — that was hard and took a long time. My knowledge made me happy — it was like a fire in my heart. Most of all, I liked to hear of the Old Days and the stories of the gods.

„It’s not the pain that’s inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It’s the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don’t let the human’s anger become yours. It can drive you mad if you do. (M'Adoc)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Zdroj: Upon the Midnight Clear