Foe Quotes - Page 17

• That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

  Leon Trotsky

  Unions, Revolutionary, Existence

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, Black

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.

  James Rosen

  Thinking, People, Heroism

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.92, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Israel, House, Majesty

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Odd Things, Righteousness, Heresy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2699, Simon and Schuster

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• Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Mean, Wealth

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• You have to learn to trust - and listen to - your unconscious mind. If you pose the question to your unconscious "is this person a friend or a foe" - safe or a threat - your unconscious mind is hard-wired to assess that brilliantly for you. It's just that we're not very good at paying attention to what our unconscious minds are telling us.

  Nick Morgan

  Mind, Attention, Safe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Animal

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• The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

  Ernst Junger

  Emotional, Hands, Sovereign

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• It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies.
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  So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

  Boris Johnson

  Compassion, Sight, Feet

  "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph, December 2, 2004.

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• But O the exceeding grace
  Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
  And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
  That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
  To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

  Edmund Spenser

  Blessed, Angel, Men

  Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd (1869). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser”, p.98

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• The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Science, Drug

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• We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

  Peter Schiff

  Feel Good, Meals, Going Out

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• The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

  George MacDonald

  Fear, Hero, Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.7720, e-artnow

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• The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

  Elizabeth I

  Joy, Doubt, Exile

  c.1568 'The Doubt of Future Foes'.

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• D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Mind, Lightning, Research

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• Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sea, Age, Torches

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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• In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

  A. H. Almaas

  Book, Journey, Humanity

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• During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Fashion, Book

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.1, Vintage

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• Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Cooking, Behinds

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• To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.

  Robert Silverberg

  Long, Enemy, Waste

  Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

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• A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.

  Christopher Paolini

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1968, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

  John C. Danforth

  Humility, Should, Said

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 17, September 19, 2006.

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