Enemy Quote by Simon May Download Open image “The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.” — Simon May ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enemy Natural Natural enemies Nature Offence
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“All opponents are not necessarily enemies. But both enemies and opponents carry certain characteristics in common. Both perceive their opposite as an obstacle, or… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
“The very pathetic myth of "beneficent nature" could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics. Of course "nature"-- in common parlance a wholly inaccurate term, by the way, especially when used as if to express a single entity--is entirely ruthless, no less so as regards types… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There's no such thing as an enemy in simple life. You are your own worst enemy. — Jonathan Tali Copy Share Image
“Because humanity is part of nature, it should be no surprise that people act consistently with natural law. But for most of us, this… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Your enemy is not the one who harms you, but the one who makes you evil. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself. — Simon May Copy Share Image
“This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and sustained-- through, once inspired, it might seek such knowledge. Love is evoked not by beauty or moral goodness (in the sense of kindness) but by the mysterious promise of the loved one to anchor and sustain… — Simon May Copy Share
“This is the feeling that I call ‘ontological rootedness’ – ontology being that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and experience of… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this… — Simon May Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish! — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
