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Quotes About Enemies

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies." —John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters , 1774
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
~ John Hancock
Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.
~ Charles Lederer
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Orcs do not have enemies." Monde tried to search for the proper term, "We have…adversaries.""Isn't that the same thing?""Depends on who's winning the war.
~ Sabrina Zbasnik
Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies.
~ Starscream
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Todos necesitamos designar a los enemigos de la seguridad para evitar ser considerados parte de ellos... Necesitamos acusar para ser absueltos, excluir para evitar la exclusión. Necesitamos confiar en la eficacia de los dispositivos de vigilancia para permitirnos creer que las criaturas decentes que somos saldrán ilesas de las trampas que ponen esos dispositivos. Y para confirmarnos y reafirmarnos en nuestra decencia y en lo adecuado de nuestro comportamiento
~ Zygmunt Bauman
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.
~ Adam Smith
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
~ Aesop
United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.
~ Aesop
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
~ Aesop
In despair and extreme distress, men and women prophesy the downfall of their enemies and the victory of their own cause, simply to vent their rage or indignation, to strengthen their resistance, to amass courage in the face of death.
~ Ágnes Heller
There will be a feasting tonight," said Malu, trying to lighten the atmosphere. "We can discuss your request then." "That's not necessary," said Flor. "But it is," the lemur argued. "You see, we can welcome you either as enemies or as guests. There will be a feasting either way.
~ Alan Dean Foster
is that what happens to us? a life of conflict with no time for friends ... so that when it's done, only our enemies leave roses.
~ Alan Moore
Only when there is undiluted compassion for everyone, even our worst enemies, is ego truly conquered. Realization
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Es ist nichts Selbstverständliches für den Christen, dass er unter Christen leben darf. Jesus Christus lebte mitten unter seinen Feinden. Zuletzt verließen ihn alle Jünger. Am Kreuz war er ganz allein, umgeben von Übeltätern und Spöttern.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer