Quotes About Enemies

Love, non-violence and turning the other cheek to your enemies are the softest and sweetest names you can give to this troubled world.

The main enemies of science are facts and common-sense.

The majority of prisoners are society's greatest enemies and sinners, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated like royalty; by offering them free meals every day.

The majority of the people are terrified by the idea of having too many enemies. But I can assure you that there is no success without criticism. We need them beside us in the same manner as we need our friends!

The person who has many friends, will be forced by necessity to create some imaginary enemies inside his mind.

To my enemies I appear like a madman, to my admirers like a sage and to those who do not know me, I simply appear like a stranger in front of their senses.

Your hands can feed you while your mouth can kill you if you let your tongue run wild in front of your enemies.

Think of the kingdom agenda of the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7), which itself points ahead to the cross: Jesus himself loves his enemies, goes where the Roman soldiers force him to go, and turns the other cheek before being set like a city on a hill, like a light on a pole. To

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Because the results of scientific investigation seem to suggest that government really did need to intervene in the marketplace if pollution and public health were to be effectively addressed, the defenders of the free market refused to accept those results. The enemies of government regulation of the marketplace became the enemies of science.

The two armies which but recently attacked you with audacity are fleeing before you in terror; the wicked men who laughed at your misery and rejoiced at the thought of the triumphs of your enemies are confounded and trembling.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

A lack of moral clarity is why an Israeli journalist compared a kipa to a prison. It is why people in free societies cannot distinguish between religious fundamentalists in democratic states and religious terrorists in fundamentalist states. It is why people in free societies can come to see their fellow citizens as their enemies and foreign dictators as their friends.

To learn how to love your enemies, read the Bible. To learn how to survive them, read the Art of War.

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

Tus propias acciones son un espejo mejor de tu vida que todas las acciones juntas de tus enemigos.

The worst aspect of the fear the ayatollahs spread was that Western intellectuals were afraid of admitting that they were afraid. If they had been honest, they would have forced society to confront the fact of censorship. As it was, their silence made the enemies of liberalism stronger.

The next countries to ban The Satanic Verses were Sudan, Bangladesh and apartheid South Africa. If you find the alliance of militant Islamists and white supremacists strange, then you have yet to learn that all the enemies of liberalism are the same.

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

Identifying the bourgeois class with the bourgeois mentality tricks the enemies of the bourgeoisie. The liquidation of a bourgeois class in the modern world is, in effect, nothing more than a slaughter that does not imply the abolition of a bourgeois mentality that already dominates all of society.

Instálese en un rincón tranquilo, cerca de la iglesia y de la gente sencilla y buena: o si tiene grandes deseos de dejar descendencia, cásese con alguna muchacha pobre y buena. Olvídese de este mundo ruidoso y de todas sus lujosas tentaciones, y que él también lo olvide. En este mundo no hay consuelo. Ya lo ve usted: no hay más que enemigos, traiciones y pecados

As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.