Quotes on Enemy

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

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