Quotes About Enemies

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

he had dangerous enemies and problematic friends

unless you were me, once again distorting reality so it would fit a negative mindset. I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

I would rather save the enemy who tells me the truth than the friend who tells me lies.

We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

right: profound un-understanding of others persisted throughout Churchill's life. Hindered by that obtusity, he had discovered the extreme vulnerability of his own position, and the harsh reality of politics. The truth was painfully simple: he had too many enemies, too few friends, and almost no popular support.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

The events we have passed through form a coherent pattern and the political actors who have shaped the world are rational--if not necessarily moral or decent--actors. Americans tend to think of its leaders as fools and knaves and of its enemies as psychotic. This seems to comfort us. While America's leaders might be knaves, they are not fools, and while our enemies might have utterly different moral values that are repugnant to us, they are far from insane.

Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. They just want an excuse to vent their rage.

War Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, everyone knows what war is like. But occupation is more terrible in a way, because people get used to one another. We tell ourselves, 'They're just like us, after all,' but they're not at all the same. We're two different species, irreconcilable, enemies forever.

Se mantenían invisibles, pero empezamos a oír el llamado lúgubre de la trutuca y de los pilloi, una flauta que hacen con huesos de las piernas de sus enemigos

Deseaba ser como Alma y vivir en una realidad manejable, donde los problemas tenían causa, efecto y solución, donde no existían seres terroríficos agazapados en los sueños ni enemigos lujuriosos espiando en cada esquina.

Sentía un amor seguro por la humanidad completa, incluso sus enemigos ideológicos, a quienes consideraba errados por ignorancia y no por intrínseca maldad.

Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. Solomon ibn Gabirol Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.

To love one's neighbors, to love one's enemies, to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.