Enmity Quotes

• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Hatred, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Misuse, Made, Occasions

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, Opportunity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1715). “M. Tully Cicero's five books of Tusculan disputations, done into Engl. by a gentleman of Christ Church college, Oxford”, p.152

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• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

  Saadi

  Kindness, Compassion, Lust

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.137, Innovations and Information

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• The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

  Robert Frost

  Beauty, Insecurity, Security

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.350, Harvard University Press

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• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Indifference, Stranger

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• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Wisdom, Block, Struggle

  "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• No one heals himself by wounding another.

  Ambrose

  Hurt, Healing, Saint

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Brother, Sibling

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sister, Brother, Humble

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• Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

  Washington Irving

  Marriage, Two, Three

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• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Offended You, Wish

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• Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Offended You, Wish, Proud

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enterprise, Deals

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  Karl Radek

  Party, Mean, Ideas

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• I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

  William Shakespeare

  Safety, World, Speak

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.449, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Cutting, People

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• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Hatred, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Forgiveness, Christian, Spiritual

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

  John Milton

  Sex, Spirit, Assuming

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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