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There is no medicine to cure hatred

Ashanti proverbs express the timeless wisdom of the Ashanti people. Wise sayings in the speech of proverbs have been passed down for generations in Ashanti culture.


Ashanti African proverb

There is no medicine to cure hatred is the Chic African Culture's favorite proverb. Anger leads to hate which leads to misery, which leads to hate which leads to anger; it is a never-ending cycle of negativity. Only when you insert love into the cycle it will become clear that love is stronger than hate. Hate destroys but love builds.

More African proverb quotes and wise sayings about hate

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.

 

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. - James Baldwin

 

I do not have time to hate people who hate me because I am too busy loving people who love me. - Unknown

 

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington

 

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Henry Emerson Fosdick

 

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. - E. Stanley Jones

 

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise, one might as well love. - Karl Kraus

 

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. - James Thurber

 

Hatred is one long wait. - René Maran


There is no medicine to cure hatred is the Chic African Culture's favorite proverb

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What is The African Gourmet blog about?

The African Gourmet explores African food, history, and culture through recipes, folktales, and proverbs written for curious readers worldwide.

Who writes The African Gourmet?

The blog is written and curated by Ivy, a lifelong historian and storyteller who highlights Africa’s culinary and cultural richness.

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