Best enemy & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.”

“The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?”

“We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”

Ideas Age Enemy Taught Fool Communism Communist

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

Ideas Politics Enemy Events Investing March Conventional Conventional Wisdom

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.”

Ideas Hands Faces Purpose Chance Enemy Combat Chances Are Knocking

Author:William Powell

“I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.”

People Ifs Men Said Ideas Views Accepting Opinion Enemy Critical Nazi

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.”

People Thinking Men Art Ideas Politics Sides Enemy Economy Democracy Creation Mass Property Artistic Limitation Discussion Liberalism Artistic Creation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.”

Ifs Feels Mind Littles Ideas Rooms Enemy Creativity Creative Bed Creating Filled Selfish Bitter Instance Negativity Creating Something Creative Ideas

Author:David Lynch

“... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ... that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against.”

Ideas Real Whole Humanity Fighting Enemy Losing Essence Trickery

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.”

Littles Ideas Enemy Worst Perfection Scar Noticing Worst Enemy

Author:Emmanuelle Chriqui

“do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.”

World Ideas Values Enemy Size Best Things Merit Good Life Get Over Life Size

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.”

Ifs Ideas Enemy Democracy Failing Tests Critical Abandon Destroying Making Peace Destroying You

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.”

Ideas Enemy Impossible Dangerous Creating Ideals Murder Ideology Dangerous Things Massacres

Author:Michael Haneke

“The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.”

“The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.”

Knows Men Trying Children Ideas States Lost Natural Freedom Enemy Break Mankind Prejudice Proof Chains Length Odds Men Women Controversial Try Again Against All Odds

Author:John Quincy Adams

“If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear….Nobody's music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Made Stills Ideas Enemy Music Is Ears Paid Made It Toxic

Author:John Mayer

“‎Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. If you feed, if you nourish attachment, love will be destroyed; If you feed and nourish love, attachment will fall away by itself. They are not one; they are two separate entities, and antagonistic to each other.”

Ifs Two Ideas Fall Enemy One Thing And Love Destroyed Attachment Entity

Author:Rajneesh

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Country Moments Facts Body Faces Given Dark Accepting Enemy Worst Intellectual Journalist Officials Cowardice Orthodoxy Bans Worst Enemy

Author:George Orwell

“The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.”

Ideas War Done Enough Shows Enemy Civilization Constant Improvement Practicals Invention Impulse Firearms Gunpowder Constant Improvement

Book:On War

Source: On War

“To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!”

Ideas Enemy Destiny Defeat Great Idea

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.”

Thinking Littles Ideas Understanding Enemy Coverage Curriculum Little Time

Author:Alfie Kohn

“I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.”

Men Want Humans Long Ideas Seems Causes Natural Human Beings Liberty Enemy Security Convinced Tyrants Indignation Proceeding Abhorrent Enterprising

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.”

Ideas Enemy Mankind Stranger Separation Accustomed

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.”

Should May Said Ideas Turns Enemy Should Have

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.”

Thinking Men Way Needs Trying Ideas Different Jesus Sin Pay Enemy Blood Demand Died Flesh Accepted Different Ways Questioning Vengeance Loving God Atonement God Image

Author:Jay Bakker

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