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Quotes About Enemies

Our assignment is affirmative: to forsake the things of the world as ends in themselves; to leave off idolatry and press forward in faith; to carry the gospel to our enemies, that they might no longer be our enemies.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan
Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan
There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.
~ St. Augustine
For God is unchangeable, and wholly proof against injury. Therefore the vice which makes those who are called His enemies resist Him, is an evil not to God, but to themselves. And to them it is an evil, solely because it corrupts the good of their nature.
~ St. Augustine
Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
~ Michael Moorcock
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah
Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.
~ Jane Heap
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.
~ George Orwell
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
This is not for me a memory. It is a portrait of now. Of a state of being of the world.' He slowly bowed his head. 'And of freedom, for change. It portends coming change. Crushing of enemies, perhaps; a coming winter, most like. But as you will never brew exactly this brew again, so the world will never again know this time or, alas, this peace.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies." "That's not true." "Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.
~ Michael Crichton
Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. Enemy simply means a not-friend; unless a person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them.
~ Michael Meade
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
~ Joseph Conrad
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
~ Buffalo Bill
Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say