But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.
The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. " You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.
To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
