Enmity Quotes

• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Hatred, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Misuse, Made, Occasions

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, Opportunity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1715). “M. Tully Cicero's five books of Tusculan disputations, done into Engl. by a gentleman of Christ Church college, Oxford”, p.152

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• No one heals himself by wounding another.

  Ambrose

  Hurt, Healing, Saint

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• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

  Saadi

  Kindness, Compassion, Lust

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.137, Innovations and Information

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• The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

  Robert Frost

  Beauty, Insecurity, Security

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.350, Harvard University Press

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• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Indifference, Stranger

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• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Wisdom, Block, Struggle

  "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sister, Brother, Humble

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Brother, Sibling

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• Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

  Washington Irving

  Marriage, Two, Three

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• Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Offended You, Wish, Proud

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• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Offended You, Wish

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

  Peter De Vries

  True Love, Love One Another, Enough

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• Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Ideas, Enemy

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

  Howard Cosell

  Muhammad, Areas, Nations

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• Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Eye

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Religion, Earth

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• You are at enmity with yourself.

  Jakob Bohme

  Conflict

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• i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

  John Gardner

  World, Saws, Chaos

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