#enemy

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#epiphany #hate #love #understanding #love

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#enemy #human #love #love

Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#enemy #love #pride #love

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceit #defamation #denial #enemy #feelings

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you. ↗

— Willie Aames

#go #going #i #look #looking

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#becomes #corrupt #enemy #happiness #less

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#even #future #knowing #modern #our

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#barrel #common #common enemy #consumer #driven

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ↗

— Pierre Berton

#destroy #divide #enemy #freedom #head-on

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#also #defeating #enemy #must #perceive