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

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

J. G. C. Brainard
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell