enemies quotes

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

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.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

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.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‚O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.‘ And God granted it.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.