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Quotes About Enemies

God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?
~ Billy Graham
Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
~ blake william iv
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
~ Bob Woodward
Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list
~ Bono
El fracaso es cuando les das la razón a tus enemigos al confirmarles que hacían bien en tenerte en la lista negra.
~ Bono
Defenders of belief in the institutions of religion, government, and business are the enemies of liveliness.
~ Brad Blanton
As a soldier, you don't stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both your comrades and enemies. For
~ Harlan Coben
The risk was greater, far greater, when you let your target or enemies work with impunity. Remove
~ Harlan Coben
I offer you the words of the Polish poet Edward Yashinsky, who said, "Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you; fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.
~ Harlan Ellison
Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you; fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.
~ Harlan Ellison
A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
~ Harper Lee
Uno puede condenar a sus enemigos, pero es más prudente conocerlos.
~ Harper Lee
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
~ Heinrich Heine
One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.
~ Heinrich Heine
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
~ David Hume
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
~ Fatos Nano
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
~ David Ogilvy
But every perceived difference, no matter how slight, can become an argument for Otherness- money, education, skin color, religion, political party, hairstyle, anything. Enemies are enlivening. Evil-doers, jihadists, barbarians. Hatred is exciting and contagious and conveniently eliminates all ambiguity. You just spew your own garbage onto someone else.
~ Siri Hustveldt
And now you know the truth! You are infidels, pagans, arrogant soldiers of the great Satan! And since you are soldiers, then you are enemies, and you must die. America and the weakness of Christianity has stood in Islam's way far too long. And now, you will be crushed under the iron boot of Islam. It is time for America to die!
~ Skip Coryell
If this elephant of mind is bound on all sides by the cord of mindfulness, All fear disappears and complete happiness comes. All enemies: all the tigers, lions, elephants, bears, serpents [of our emotions];2 And all the keepers of hell; the demons and the horrors, All of these are bound by the mastery of your mind, And by the taming of that one mind, all are subdued, Because from the mind are derived all fears and immeasurable sorrows.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.
~ Sojourner Truth
A bad person has good friends and a good person has many enemies.
~ Sokreaksa S. Himm
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
~ Sophocles
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
~ Spanish proverb