Best enemy & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.”

Author:Charles de Lint

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

Ifs Matter Facts Lying Memories Enemy Worst Circumstances Truth Is No Matter What Fellows Deceit Falsehood Truest Worst Enemy Bad Memories

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.”

Matter Facts Born Enemy Worst Absolutes Extremist Decree Worst Enemy Diplomats Irrevocable

Author:Regis Debray

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.”

Years Matter Purpose Process Enemy Cutting Add Edges Stupidity Billions Complexity Disorder Defining Novelty Thirteen Entropy Cutting Edge

Author:Terence McKenna

“As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.”

Ifs Men Way Trying Kind Long Doe Matter Feelings Black White Enemy And Love No Matter What Strikes White Man Alright Extremist Strike Back

Author:Malcolm X

“You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.”

People Thinking Way Believe War Matter Winning I Believe Enemy Generations Car Right Now Beats Suicide Seeking Revenge These Days Opponents Bombs Resorts

Author:George Clooney

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.”

Matter Jobs Lying Enemy Military Information Comfort Presses Deny Aids

Author:David Hackworth

“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.”

Thinking Men May Stills Matter Feelings Religion Community Church Moral Enemy Support Higher Office Eternal Consequence Leaving Insult Makers Church And State Scoffers

Book:Lincoln on Lincoln

Source: Lincoln on Lincoln

“Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.”

Matter States Fighting United Common Enemy United States Cost No Matter What Determined Terrorist Illegal Als Afghanistan Al Qaeda Taliban Swapping

Author:John Bolton

“Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.”

Men May Matter Enough Whole Use Shows Feelings Certain Loses Opinion Enemy Contrary Affected Destroying Distrust Good Feeling Guarding

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?”

Firsts Matter Enemy Break Secretary

Author:James Mattis

“Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.”

Humans Matter Spirit Force Human Beings Enemy Materials Slave Compare Beast

Author:Simon Bolivar

“Thus, Protestantism will always stand up for the advancement of all Germans as such, as long as matters of inner purity or national deepening as well as German freedom are involved, since all these things have a firm foundation in its own being; but it combats with the greatest hostility any attempt to rescue the nation from the embrace of its most mortal enemy, since its attitude toward the Jews just happens to be more or less dogmatically established.”

Wells Long Matter Happens Nations Attitude Enemy Involved Foundation Embrace Jew Mortals Firm Purity Combat Rescue Hostility Advancement Protestantism Mortal Enemies Firm Foundation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.”

Knows Giving I Can Matter Enemy Giving Up Musician Iran Courageous

Author:Shahin Najafi

“The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.”

Ifs Matter Enemy Principles Practice Successful New York Politician Office Advantage Claims Gentleman Retiring Defeated Spoil Fastidious

Author:William L. Marcy

“When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.”

Matter Eye Sleep Enemy Sweet Awake Tempting

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him.”

Way Trying Heart May Soul Matter Action Spiritual Enemy Approach Labor Salvation Busy Persevere

Author:Cyprian

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