Enemies Quotes

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it"

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends"

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends"

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies"

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies"

"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot"

"Enemies are so stimulating"

"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character"

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless"

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made"

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas"

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"

"Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself"

"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations"

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends"

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want"

"The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number"

"And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on"

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes"

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults"

"Even paranoids have real enemies"

"Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back"

"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves"

"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies"

"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts"

"America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies"

"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other"

"On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation"

"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better"

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies"

"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself"

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies"