Enemy Quotes

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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever… — Saint Augustine
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that… — Thomas Merton
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Cupid "the little greatest enemy." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. — Spike Milligan
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that… — Hannah Arendt
We have not eternal allies and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and peretual and those interests it is out duty to… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed… — John T. Flynn
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies. — W L George
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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… — Pope John Paul II
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor… — Pope Paul VI
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war… — Jeannette Rankin
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. — Sun Tzu
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving… — Sheryl Crow
The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes by always keeping… — Morihei Ueshiba
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. — Kofi Abrefa Busia
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger. — Alexis de Tocqueville

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