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Quotes About Enmity

See the moon? It hates us.
~ Donald Barthelme
If you make jokes with people, you create enemies to yourself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I will put animosity between you and the woman, and between your descendant and her descendant; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He can
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
~ Radhanath Swami
It's important to recognise that opposing racism isn't just about presenting an alternative set of values; it's about looking at how the far right play on people's hardships in order to nurture a sense of enmity between white people and those racialised as migrants.
~ Ash Sarkar
Dislike is what creates rivalries.
~ Paul Pierce
Madam, hatred has become your handmaiden.
~ Robert Goldsborough
as Alistair Horne points out, this was not simply a battle between two armies but the ancient conflict of Teuton and Gaul, two ethnic groups letting one thousand years of envy and hatred out in one long pent-up explosion of violence
~ Robin Neillands
The face of your greatest enemy might be the face of my finest friend. An
~ Robin S. Sharma
Similarly, while the Tudors are often recalled in terms of a historical enmity with Spain, this too is history written with hindsight: the Armada did not take place until a generation after Elizabeth became queen.
~ Leanda de Lisle
He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed.
~ Leif Enger
the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.
~ Aldous Huxley
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
~ Doug Horton
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
~ Duke of Wellington
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
~ C. S. Lewis
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
~ Jim Morrison
Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.— Benjamin Franklin
~ Jinx Schwartz
I wanted him. Wanted him in ways that just weren't right, because nobody should fantasize about fucking their mortal enemy.
~ Joanna Wylde
Give me up to the Argives instead of them, O king, and so neither run any risk yourself, and let the children be saved for me; I must not love my own life, let it go; and above all, Eurystheus would like taking me, the ally of Hercules, to insult me; for he is a froward man; and the wise should pray to have enmity with a wise man, not with an ignorant disposition, for in that case one, even if unfortunate, may meet with much respect.
~ Euripides
How dreadful a thing, mother, is the enmity of relations, having means of reconciliation seldom to be brought about!
~ Euripides
Dire and beyond all healing is the hate When hearts that loved are turned to enmity.
~ Euripides