Friedrich Nietzsche Enemy Quotations

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth ; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.