I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Work hard and go your own path. You’ll make enemies, lose friends, but you’ll make even better ones on the way.
Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.
Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone’s enemies.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.
In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for another four years.
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
The more I prayed for my enemies, the softer my heart became.
With enemies, it’s easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.
Love your enemies… it’s not always an easy tenet to live by… and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it’s not just in the workplace.
In ‘The Future and Its Enemies,’ I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
I’ve always felt that it didn’t feel right for me when a protagonist goes through a storyline where they’re killing a lot of enemies, and at the very end of the story he ends up kissing the heroine and that’s where you end the game.
Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren’t even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party’s voters.
I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.
Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.
I don’t get mentioned in too many things that deal with hip-hop, really, because I’m not really friends with anybody. Not in the way where I’m enemies with them; I just don’t meet people.
While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.
We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
What links Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Marine Le Pen is one simple character trait: hypocrisy. These politicians aren’t tribunes of the people, they are hucksters. They aren’t bitter enemies of the Western system; they are con artists who seek to profit from it.
People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the ‘Homeland’ audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world – and it’s their job.
The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.
I spent my whole childhood being told, ‘Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.’ But can’t Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I’m frozen in time.
Interpol was set up to catch fugitives, not act like the long arm of Putin going after his enemies.
Who needs enemies when you’ve got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?
I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That’s the only way we’ll find solutions.
The media try to make rank-and-file Americans feel guilty about buying a gun. The enemies of freedom demonize gun buyers and portray us as social lepers. But we know the truth. We know that responsible gun ownership exemplifies what is good and right about America.
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
I have written on all sorts of subjects… yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
No ideology better understands the need for enemies than neoconservatism, and when the cold war dramatically and unexpectedly ended, the way was prepared for the ‘Arab threat’ to emerge. ‘True Lies,’ the 1994 James Cameron comedy thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, duly served up the Arab villain Salim Abu Aziz.
I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
The Second Amendment is key to how this country was founded. The Founders put it in place so we could defend ourselves from enemies, foreign and domestic, to be honest with you, and honestly, we need to be able to keep and bear to protect ourselves, to protect our families, and to protect our country.
Nelson Mandela just died, so that says so much because it’s a tremendously powerful and great man who was very sensitive. Loved all people, forgave his enemies, and showed the world how to stand up and do it the right way.
