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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Good, Hatred, Enemies, Evil, Forgiveness

• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Enemies, Forgiveness

• Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kin, Kings, Enemies, Bitter

• Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it’s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Gossip, Enemies, Excellence, Virtue

• I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

  Warren G. Harding

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Floor, Friends, Enemies, Trouble, Nights

• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Enemies, Nice

• Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Enemies, Need

• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Anger, Truth

  Tags in Empathy, Enemies, Tolerance, Understanding

• Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we’ll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Enemies, Understanding

• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Kindness, Trust

  Tags in Hatred, Enemies, Understanding

• When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enemies, Turn

• Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Anger, Attitude

  Tags in Enemies, Arrogance

• An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Method, Infallible, Oneself, Enemies, Tiger

• Last guys don’t finish nice.

  Saul Alinsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Rebellion, Niceness, Enemies

• There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

  George Washington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Enemies

• It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Friendship, Religion

  Tags in Enemies

• I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

  Ann Richards

  Topics in Friendship, Politics

  Tags in Enemies

• The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

  Henry Miller

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Enemies

• When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous — a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn’t be here. You’re going to Mississippi to create social change — and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it — at which point they can become human too.

  Bayard Rustin

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Enemies

• You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Enemies