"If you wish to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you wish to see the heroic, look to see those who can love in return for hate."
- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16, Daivasura–Sampad–Vibhaga yoga (on The Separateness of the Divine and Undivine)
"While contemplating overmuch the material objects of the senses, one develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises. Anger births hatred, hatred engenders delusion, and from delusion springs a bewilderment of memory. When the mind is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool."
- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Sankhya yoga (on the Science of Doctrines)
"Hatred can never be diminished by hatred, only by kindness. This is eternal."
- Gautama the Buddha
"Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle."
- Vivekananda