A Quote by Edward Gibbon

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon
English - Historian
April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

Shigeru Yoshida

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Samuel Johnson

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Kevyn Aucoin

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Louise Colet

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Anne Bronte

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Ambrose Bierce

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

Andrew Sullivan

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

William Benton Clulow

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.

Gautama Buddha

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

Daryl Davis

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.