More quotations tagged with “enemies”
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mahatma Gandhi
After every "victory" you have more enemies.
—Jeanette Winterson
I have two enemies in all the world, / Two twins, inseparably pooled: / The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.
—Marina Tsvetaeva
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
—Lady Mary Worley Montagu