Enemy Quotes - Page 99

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

When you are living with the exhortation or live-with "Be in the World But Not of It," you experience your connection with all and the possibility of co-creativity and collaboration with those around you. You see an oneness in the world as opposed to warfare, even with those who are your enemies. You are not of the world of conflict, even though you have the strength to deal with it and turn it around. You have compassion in the sense of seeing the highest in yourself and then seeing that in others.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!

I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

The enemy shapes the brand.

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

After victory, you have more enemies.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'