Enmity Quotations

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

The one who does all works for Me, and to whom I am the supreme goal, who is my devotee, who has no attachment, and is free from enmity towards any being attains Me, O Arjuna.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

You are at enmity with yourself.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.