Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- While love removes fear, the speaker suggests that intense hatred can also eliminate fear.
- In plain terms
- Both perfect love and perfect hate can make a person fearless.
- What can you take from it?
- Extreme emotions, whether positive or negative, can remove fear.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can hatred truly free you, or just enslave you differently?
Another view
This equates hate with love in a way that may justify harmful emotions.
More from John Buchan
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fit…
Permalink to quote #9 The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion…
Permalink to quote #11 Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the youngest of hearts gr…
Permalink to quote #8
Related quotes
Si on juge de l'amour par la plupart de ses effets, il ressemble plus a la haine qu'a l'amitie.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld quote #25 You have never, I think, known real Grief-panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives-you and me particularly. I'm not sur…
Diana CooperDiana Cooper quote #1 Je l'ai trop aime pour ne le point hair!
Jean RacineJean Racine quote #1