Sydney J. Harris Quote

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.


"Love and Its Loveless Counterfeits" - Strictly Personal (1953)


The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate...

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate...

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate...

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate...