No Enemy Quotes

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

The universe works with you and for you. It is not your enemy.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.