Enemy Quotes - Page 16

• The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Imagination, Hatred, Groups

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from.

  Duncan Green

  People, Done, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

  Saadi

  War, Mind, Ease

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• Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

  Rumi

  Wise, Wisdom, Foolish

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• Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

  George Puttenham

  Knowledge, Men, Ignorant

  "The Arte of English Poesie". Book by George Puttenham and Richard Puttenham, 1589.

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• A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory, or even if you're doing celebrity allegory. You still need to take the cynical out of it.

  Mark Waid

  Political, Cynical, Superhero

  "Mark Waid on his personal digital-comics revolution". Interview With Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

  Allan Bloom

  Errors, Tolerance, Respectful

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• With every enemy, when you get closer you understand much more, or the picture dissolves.

  Maren Ade

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Running, Science, Acceptance

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.478, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Earth, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.297, Vintage

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• A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, What If, Chiefs

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting

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• I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

  Louis Bonaparte

  Country, Law, Should

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• Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery!

  Lil Wayne

  Years, Victory, Misery

  Song: No Quitter Go Getter

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• When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

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• As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  House, Advice, Dresses

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Sex, Solo

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.27, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Medicine, Poison, Use

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• I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  War, Missing, Died

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• Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Father, Humanity

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• If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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• CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Death Of A Friend, Affliction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Allies, Known

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