#enemies

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life #philosophy #life

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#enemy #life #time #life

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#enemies-and-opposition #life

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enemies #self-reflection #love

A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#friends #man #true #love

If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a place of love and safety, it's your sanctuary from the outside world. The only place where we can truly be accepted. ↗

— Lisa Marie Main

#binding #love-soul-mates #old-enemies #wars #witches

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people. ↗

— Karel Čapek

#mankind #war #love

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#god #love #loving #men #will

He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the scaffold, seen through the veil of rain: his body, already dead, folding back neatly from the impact of the axe. The cardinal when he fell had no persecutor more relentless than Thomas More. Yet, he thinks, I did not hate him. I exercised my skills to the utmost to persuade him to reconcile with the king. And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and wrote and he talked and talked, then suddenly at a stroke he cancelled himself. If ever a man came close to beheading himself, Thomas More was that man. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#reflection #men

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#friends #nature #nature