Quotes about Enemy

Philosopher

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

Enemy - Revenge - Transgression

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

Adversity - Enemy - Sleeping

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Enemy - Engagement - Obligations - War - Wishing

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

Be where your enemy is not.

Art - Enemy - War

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

Confusion - Devotion - Enemy - Fighting - Follower - Mankind - Philosophy - Threat

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Enemy - Teaching

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

Development - Enemy - Greed - Health - Individual - Peace - War

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

After victory, you have more enemies.

Enemy - Victory - War

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

Enemy - Mankind - Realization - Sacrifice

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Rachel Carson

Marine biologist

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

Actions - Dawn - Enemy - Mornings - People - Rebirth - Silence - Sound - Voice - Witchcraft - World

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Laozi

Philosopher

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Actions - Compassion - Enemy - Life - Patience - Patient - Philosophy - Reconciling - Return - Simple - Spiritual - Taoism - Treasure - World

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William Butler Yeats

Clergyman, Poet, Poet

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Enemy - Innocence - Time

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Actions - Enemy - Heroism - Military - Overcome

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

Art - Creativity - Democracy - Economy - Enemy - Liberalism - Limits - Man - People - Politics - Property - Thinking

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Diogenes

Philosopher

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

Enemy - Friendship - Illness - Making - Man - Perfection - Sense

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Bribe - Care - Enemy - Espionage - Essence - Giving - War

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Rajneesh

Guru

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Attachment - Enemy - Life

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

Diversity - Enemy - Human - Judging - Nations - Speaking - Victim - Weakness

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

Battle - Defeat - Enemy - Fighting - Making - Retreat

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

Enemy - Praying

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