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Quotes About Enemies

God's love for Christ also implies His hatred for Christ's enemies and His zeal to vindicate Christ's honor.
~ Unknown
This was the pretech experience, that even if you had no enemies the world itself could kill you. And
~ Vernor Vinge
Does one unceasingly talk about a thousand years and enemies destroyed, if one is certain of these thousand years and this annihilation?
~ Victor Klemperer
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
~ Oscar Wilde
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
~ Nathan Hale
The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
~ Enoch Powell
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
~ Antisthenes
lo que quiere decir es que lo que normalmente consideramos obstáculos no son verdaderamente nuestros enemigos, sino nuestros amigos.
~ Pema Chodron
No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze.
~ Peter Kreeft
Looking back, I think my struggle with Jerry taught me things about myself that I couldn't have learned any other way. The Dalai Lama calls it "the enemy's gift." From a Buddhist perspective, battling with enemies can help you develop greater compassion for and tolerance of others.
~ Phil Jackson
Our nation's angriest culture warriors need to know the cost of their conflict. As they seek to crush their political and cultural enemies, they may destroy the nation they seek to rule.
~ Unknown
My enemies can soar into the night like invisible demons, conjure wolf creatures from hell, and read minds. On our side is a god that can lead a man to a ferry!
~ David Gemmell
The terrible thing is that Hitler's enemies know him better than anybody, and the press – which is of course wholly in Jewish hands – has defamed and ridiculed the man. An old trick: first a deathly silence, then scorn, then all-out war – and then annexation. (There are Jewish firms that manufacture swastikas.)
~ David Irving
The most dramatic events lie ahead of us. Israel today is an island of less than nine million immigrants surrounded by a sea of three hundred million enemies, many of them eager to wipe the tiny nation off the map.
~ David Jeremiah
Yet with Barack Obama, America has been thrust into an entirely new and almost surreal realm. For no other occupant of the White House, however controversial or unpopular, has ever inspired such a widespread conviction among the populace that a sitting American president and wartime commander in chief actually hates the very nation he was elected to lead and is sympathetic toward her enemies.
~ Unknown
Es el ego quien nos engaña para que pensemos que tenemos razones para hacer lo que sea necesario con tal de imponernos sobre aquellos que percibimos como nuestros enemigos.
~ Yehuda Berg
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies. 'Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.
~ Zane Grey
Perhaps we admire certain qualities in Rome only because we are Jews—just as our being Jews makes us the implacable enemies of other qualities that Rome embraces.
~ Howard Fast
No one who is a friend of Pakistan must say anything that harms its reputation; anyone who dares to ask tough questions or make adverse remarks must be prepared to be categorized as Pakistan's enemy.
~ Husain Haqqani
As in many insecure states, in Pakistan the line between preventing the nation's enemies from causing it harm and declaring everyone who disagrees with the government an enemy of the nation was blurred.
~ Husain Haqqani
In Pakistan, a perception has been officially cultivated that anyone who offers facts, statistics or opinions that do not coincide with the national narrative does so at the behest of Pakistan's many external enemies.
~ Husain Haqqani
Exile. It is not simply being homeless. Rather, it is knowing that you do have a home, but that your home has been taken over by enemies. Exile. It is not being without roots. On the contrary, it is having deep roots which have now been plucked up, and there you are, with roots dangling, writhing in pain, exposed to a cold and jeering world, longing to be restored to native and nurturing soil. Exile is knowing precisely where you belong, but knowing that you can't go back, not yet.
~ Unknown
As C. S. Lewis reminds us: In all our discussions of Hell we should keep steadily before our eyes the possible damnation, not of our enemies nor of our friends (since both these disturb the reason) but of ourselves. This [doctrine] is not about your wife or son, nor about Nero or Judas Iscariot; it is about you and me.
~ Unknown