ENEMIES QUOTES V

quotations about enemies

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In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up.

JAMES REDFIELD

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When the inhabitants of a free city have overcome the enemy in the field, it is not easy to express the pleasure which they feel in putting their opponents to flight, as well as in pursuing and making havoc of them.

XENOPHON

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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

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Your enemy brought out your dormant primal instincts, he lit up the primitive circuits of your brain.

E. L. DOCTOROW

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I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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The dread of an enemy is more killing then an enemy.

JOSEPH CARYL

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Love your enemies but keep your gun oiled.

KEN ALSTAD

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In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems;
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which of a weak and niggardly projection
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
A little cloth.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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An enemy is like a darkroom designed to develop you as a portrait for the next season of your life.

J. ELWOOD GATLIN, SR.

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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

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Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside ... or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

DEREK LANDY

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When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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We must give even an enemy what credit he deserves. If thus we do, then whether we blame or excuse, it will be clear that we are looking at the wrong, not blinded by hatred of the person. This will gain credit for what we say. To this kind of high and self-contained justice, enemies may help us more directly than friends, perhaps, because it is so easy to commend the friend for love's sake, but a harder and higher virtue to excuse the enemy for justice's sake.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

FRANK HERBERT

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. CHESTERTON

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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

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Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

STAN LEE

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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

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