Quotes About Enemies

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize for America.

My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

AUTHORITARIAN LEADERS FREQUENTLY MANUFACTURE and demonize "enemies" to shore up support from their political base.

For peoples seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity, enemies are essential, and the potentially most dangerous enmities occur across the fault lines between the world's major civilizations.

One, by his own confession to me, that can put on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends. But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation.

Darling, I have enemies I've never met. that's fame!

My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.

My fame had become annoying for my enemies, and a little trying, I confess, for my friends.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Epic poems were always best in French. Let's see. "Le troisième enfant dans les vêtements de ses ennemis

For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen

Yet with all the advantages over both friends and enemies which I now possessed I could not honestly say I was happy. I knew I could have every possible enjoyment and amusement the world had to offer--I knew I was one of the most envied among men, and yet, as I stood looking out of the window at the persistently falling rain, I was conscious of a bitterness rather than a sweetness in the full cup of fortune.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

The concept of the soul is the profoundest possible bond among us, an unshakable basis for compassion, recognition, and love, which, acknowledged, would enable us to love enemies, welcome strangers, and all the rest.

friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.

My friend," he said, "people like you and me meet face to face and kill each other. Our enemies are behind us." He let his hand fall. "Our enemies are behind us," he repeated bitterly, "and commit the crimes for which we die.

If by some misfortune an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies - the Don raised his arm, finger pointing at Bonasera - and then, believe me, they would fear you.

En The Open Society and its Enemies, de donde proceden estas citas, Popper es meridianamente claro: «economic power may be nearly as dangerous as physical violence» («el poder económico puede ser casi tan peligroso como la violencia física»)[44].