#enemy

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enemies #enemy #friend #friends #friendship

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#motivational

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#enemy #life #love #then

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ↗

— August Bebel

#civilization #enemy #liberty

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. ↗

— Bono

#elvis #enemy #god #happens #left

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#greatest #human #human souls #look #makes

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#administration #agencies #america #any #because

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#counting #dancing #enemy #even #follows

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw. ↗

— Ken Buck

#deadlines #enemy #going #i #telling