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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius, 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Construction is very difficult, destruction is easy.

J. Golden Kimball, One of the First Seven Presidents of Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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It’s always easier to hate than to forgive, isn’t it?

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill, British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

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6) It is easier to destroy than create. Bin Laden tore down the World Trade Center? Let's see him build one. If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.

The power to create order is one thing. The power to destroy is another. Always they are in balance. But it is easier to destroy than to create, and there are those whose nature it is to love destruction.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

I have discovered in my life that it is more challenging to build than to maintain.

Vince Lombardi, American football player, coach, and executive (1913-1970)

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I think everyone in this room realizes that anger and hate only destroy. What do you do when that’s over? How do you build, right? Because in order to create, to build for the future, you have to move away from that. How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity. We’ve got to jump in...

It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it’s a lot easier to hate someone you’ve cared about than someone you never have.

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