What Is the Difference Between Anger and Hatred? Q: What is the difference between hate and anger? My impression is that it is when somebody says they are hating a person or a person perceives another person is hating them, that it could be that they are angry about something. That something is— RK: Hate is sustained anger; conscious, sustained anger. We have all run into situations where anything that we do not have control over when it impinges on us, we tend to get angry over. Whatever that may be. If it makes us afraid of our ability to be in control of our lives we get angry. Well, hatred needs to be nursed. If I recall, I cannot recall exactly how it is, but Hitler made a real good definition of what hate is and it had to be something that was nurtured. You had to learn how to become a true hater. He went on and on in a speech one time. I read the translation of that speech one time. Q: Do you mean consciously work at it? RK: Yes, right. If you want to have a “good hate” you have got to work on it, otherwise, you are just angry. You don’t know what to do with it. You cannot attach the anger to anything.
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