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Quotes About Enmity

Enmity shapes our consciousness and identity.
~ Karen Armstrong
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
~ Martial
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
~ Plutarch
We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.
~ Timothy Keller
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
~ Alexander Pope
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
~ Milan Kundera
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
~ Pervez Musharraf
Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.
~ John of Damascus
The best punishment for an enemy is forgiveness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Hatred begets One with eyes Closed, The wiser's love cannot be sourced.
~ Shouvik N.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
~ Joseph O'Connor
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
~ Walter Kirn
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
In life, friends become family, sometimes they become enemy and enemy becomes motivation.
~ Evan Ricafort
When I think of life as struggle with the Daimon who would ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity between a man and his destiny, and why a man loves nothing but his destiny.
~ William Butler Yeats
In a spiritual sense, carnal people cannot grasp the significance of God's Word unless they turn to God, accept His Word by faith, and seek spiritual understanding. "The carnal mind is enmity against God" (Romans 8:7). "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (I Corinthians 2:14).
~ David K. Bernard
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
~ Plato
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
~ William Temple
I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.
~ Richelle Mead
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
~ Margaret Oliphant
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
~ Noel Gallagher