Top 100 Quotes About Enmity
#1. I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
Sophocles
#2. 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.
John Hancock
#3. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi
#4. Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law
Eiichiro Oda
#5. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#6. I can state, you are my enemy but will you do enmity better than me?
Kamini Arichandran
#7. Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
William Shakespeare
#8. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#9. I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity.
Emily Dickinson
#10. Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
Karl Radek
#12. At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.
John Of Kronstadt
#13. It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that 'they are mine...they are mine'.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. the world: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. .
John Gardner
#16. We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
Epictetus
#17. Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."
Al-Nawawi
#18. For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India ... My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't ... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
Mark Twain
#20. Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.
Gautama Buddha
#21. But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.
Edward Gibbon
#22. We tend to suppress our anger against each other which ultimately leads to big quarrels some day. If two people have been naturally expressing their differences of opinion or having small arguments on regular basis, they will never have resentment or enmity of a lifetime.
Deep Trivedi
#23. Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud
#24. The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.
R.C. Sproul
#25. The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.
Robert Frost
#26. People are linked together by enmity than by love.
Shusaku Endo
#27. His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.
Harold Holzer
#28. Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.
Joseph Addison
#30. My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.
John Fante
#31. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.
Nike Thaddeus
#32. Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].
Dada Bhagwan
#33. I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
Clarence Day
#34. The United States of America ... has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Muslims.
John Adams
#35. Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.
Thomas Merton
#36. Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.
Bernard Cornwell
#37. Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.
Guru Arjan
#38. O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.
Baha'u'llah
#39. for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.
Thomas Paine
#40. There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.
Tom Wicker
#41. When God forgives, there is an immediate and
complete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.
Billy Graham
#42. 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.
Francis Atterbury
#43. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.
Zicheng Hong
#44. What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
Edwin Gaustad
#45. The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Edmund White
#46. When I think of life as struggle with the Daimon who would ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity between a man and his destiny, and why a man loves nothing but his destiny.
W.B.Yeats
#47. Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.
William Shakespeare
#48. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences
J.K. Rowling
#49. The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.
James Buchan
#50. The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,
Who say to us in slander's breath
That love belongs to sin and death.
John Clare
#52. The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.
J. K. Bharavi
#53. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
Idries Shah
#54. Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.
Yousef Saanei
#55. Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
Parwez Musharraf
#56. Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.
John Piper
#57. War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
Saint Augustine
#58. In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,
the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.
Francis Parkman
#59. Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
#60. The Prophet said: Don't sit with every learned man. Sit with the learned man who calls towards five matters towards faith from doubt, sincerity from show, modesty from pride, love from enmity, and ascetism from worldliness.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#61. That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
John Milton
#62. The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Garet Garrett
#63. If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.
Saint John Chrysostom
#64. Look carefully at any region of the world where you find intractable enmity and violence between rival groups today. I cannot guarantee that you'll find religions as the dominant labels for in-groups and out-groups. But it's a good bet.
Richard Dawkins
#65. 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.
Ben Shapiro
#66. If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.
Dada Bhagwan
#67. Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
Watchman Nee
#68. Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#69. I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
William Shakespeare
#70. There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.
Bridget Of Sweden
#71. Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#75. She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her quiet of mind.
Thomas Hardy
#76. I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
Preston Sturges
#78. She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
Laini Taylor
#79. To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
Saadi
#80. Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.
Martyn
#82. To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Abraham Lincoln
#83. I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
Wayne Dyer
#84. The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
Laozi
#87. [Politics] is the seedbed of social enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual. Name anything bad in man, and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with abundance.
Maxim Gorky
#88. Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
Saint Augustine
#92. I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
Howard Cosell
#93. There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.
Ptolemy
#94. If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
Isaac Barrow
#95. So. Monday. We meet again.
We will never be friends - but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.
Julio Alexi Genao
#96. There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
John Quincy Adams
#97. We used to argue, fight and get angry, but we always ended our enmity with kisses and hugs.
M.F. Moonzajer
#98. Wherever there is 'faith' without regeneration it has to be that the uncured enmity of the natural man to spiritual things remains.
Iain H. Murray
#99. Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking.
Joel T. McGrath
#100. You mean like you?" The old enmity had come roaring back, and she was no longer one of my bosses. She gave a shout of laughter. "Well, you're right, it's been a rotten time. I've been catering, which is just another way of saying that I've been in hell." "That bad?" Richard took a bite
Ruth Reichl
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