A Quote by Tacitus

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Tacitus

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Disposition Hate Hate Him Him Human Injured Nature Whom

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

Tacitus

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Tacitus

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Tacitus

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Charlotte Lennox

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

Tacitus

It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another-his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important: do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you'd never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him do unto him as you would have him do unto you.

Tikhon of Zadonsk

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Elizabeth Chandler

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

Anatole France

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.