“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”

“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”

“It was like hate on a deathbed.”

“Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.”

“With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.”

“Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.”