Enemy Quotes - Page 60

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)

The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

The only enemy of art is taste.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.

Do not press an enemy at bay.

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.