Enemy Quotes - Page 128

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

We need to remember who the enemy is, and then we need to eat them alive.

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.