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“I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”

Thinking America Enemy Dangerous

Author:Nathan Hale

“We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.”

Thinking Men Should Children Enemy Cease

Author:Karen DeCrow

“Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning.”

Thinking Winning Speak Enemy

Book:The Spirit of Python

Source: The Spirit of Python

“In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.”

Thinking Knows I Can Causes Enemy Love You Neighbor Believer Love Your Enemies Love Your Neighbor Neighbor Love

Author:John Kasich

“Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”

Thinking Men Enemy Goodness Wicked Wickedness Bad Man Always Thinking

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“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

“I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.”

Thinking Enemy Worst Worst Enemy

Author:Antonio Banderas

“Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Law Order Enemy Democracy Growing Like You Western Track Blow Terrorism Communism Fascism Hammers Law And Order Disintegration Western Society Point Break

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.”

Thinking Men Self Interest Justice Forget Enemy Share Angel Stranger Doing Right

Author:David Dudley Field II

“I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.”

People Thinking Hands Truth Enemy History Power Information Skillful Misuse Perversion

Author:John le Carre

“Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.”

Thinking Men Enemy Habit Reflection Perfection Profound Civilized Compelled Pernicious

Author:Constantine the Great

“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.”

Thinking Men War Ends Facts Existence Leader Enemy He Man Essentials Army Slavery Unions Careful Civil War Rebellion Be Careful Trusted Hostile Traitor

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.”

Thinking Looks Persons Hate Individual Realizing Enemy Balance Elements Seeking

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.”

Thinking Should Firsts Reason Hate Universe Evil Jesus Existence Enemy Peace And Justice

Book:A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

“But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.”

Thinking War Wish Enemy Mankind Comfort Horror Benefits Captivity Disregarded Horror Of War

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

“If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Mind Said Enemy Kindness Cases Wise Dues Injury Spokes

Author:Plato

“Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Trying Wells Change Enemy Easier Telling The Truth Wilson

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”

“Showing weakness will encourage your opponents. It inspires them. It encourages them to hit harder. To come faster. But when you don't show any fear, or when you don't show any hurt, you have the opportunity to discourage your opponent. You discourage your enemies. The bottom line is, if you think properly, you don't even have to think about all of that. All you have to think about is that guy across from me is human, and so am I. And he'll never out-work me. He'll never out-think me. And if you can't out-work me, and you can't out-think me, you'll never beat me.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Shows Guy Opportunity Hurt Lines Enemy Inspire Beats Weakness Harder Bottom Faster Opponents Bottom Line Discouraging That Guy

Author:Jim Brown

“I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.”

People Thinking Belief Born Enemy Empathy Treats Extremes Desperate Viewpoints

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.”

Thinking Needs Mean War Winning Force Enemy Violence Serious Approach Program Terrorist Destroyed Pacifist Can't Win

Author:Philip Gourevitch

“Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.”

Thinking Children Song Deals Enemy Careers Baby Authority Mentality Boomers Baby Boomer Baby Boom

Author:George Carlin

“Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Writing Humans Kind Art Self Night Song Effort Enemy Tomorrow Satisfaction True You Self-satisfaction Domesticity

Author:Paul McCartney

“I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.”

People Thinking Needs Littles Black Enemy Love You Kings Silly Phrases Luther Holding On Love Your Enemies Silly Little

Author:Bell Hooks

“Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”

Ifs Thinking Soul Heaven Enemy Masters Judgment Property Slave Treasure Chains Owners Thieves Household Consumerism Overconsumption Treasures In Heaven

Author:Cyprian

“There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.”

Thinking Men Want Young Choices Asks Enemy Successful Models Victim Lovely Happy Life Young Women Grandchildren Successful Marriage

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Able Enemy Worst Havens Battle Overcoming Obstacles Worst Enemy Love Myself I Love Myself Loving Myself Biggest Obstacles

Author:Mike Epps

“I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.”

“If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Young Felt Enemy

Author:Agnes Varda

“I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.”

Thinking Should Trying Moments Courses Force Felt Silence Enemy Figures Tricks Poetry Is Right Moment

Author:Cornelius Eady

“I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.”

Thinking Kind Reading Sides Enemy Novel Graphic Graphic Novels Flipped

Author:Gene Luen Yang

“I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.”

“Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins.”

People Thinking Way Inspirational Two Christian Religious Sin Lord Enemy Forgiving Saint Saved Sinner Orthodox Merciful

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.”

Thinking Has Beens Reason Done Dream Grows Prayer Enemy Watches Duty Battle Soldier Temptation Secure Satan Suspects Solemn Zeal Tempting Ordinances Armour

Book:All Things for Good

Source: All Things for Good

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”

Source: A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris

“As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.”

Thinking Years Stills Two Body Culture Enemy Blood Highest Edges Deeds Paradise Primitive Tattoo Gross Drank Skulls Polished Savagery Carnage Valhalla

Author:Jack London

“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

“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Humans Wells Self Eye Consciousness Enemy Creativity Creative Mirrors Editors Publishing Creative Writing Marketplace Doing You Self Consciousness

Author:Andre Dubus

“Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.”

Thinking Important War Running Enemy Support Policy Terror Foreign Policy Troops Hitting War On Terror Our Troops Forward Thinking Support The Troops Support Our Troops

Author:Christopher Bond

“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Humans Self Consciousness Enemy Creativity Creative Creative Writing Self Consciousness

Author:Andre Dubus

“Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.”

People Thinking Ends Night Next Acting Enemy Beats Next Day All Night Rigidity Up All Night

Author:Jay Baruchel

“You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.”

Thinking Knows Men Mean Bigs Faces Deals Enemy Bombs Pauses Big Deal Face To Face

Author:John Travolta

“The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.”

Thinking Knows Want Mind Hard Sides Enemy Teacher Commanders Pupils Away From You Hard Things

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“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

“I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.”

Thinking Want Done Jobs Causes President Enemy Sacrifice Noble Violent Troops Our Troops Violent Acts

Author:George W. Bush

“Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.”

Thinking Firsts Seems Term Company Enemy Car Cost First Time Oil Permanent Fuel Electric Fossils Cheaper Fossil Fuel Disservice Oil Companies Electric Car

Author:Chris Paine

“If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Enemy Issues Information Supposed To Be Journalist Boss Betray Traitor Treason

Author:Edward Snowden

“Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.”

Thinking Has Beens War Facts Spiritual Pay Attention Enemy Ego Concepts Negative Who You Are Disaster Boundaries Arise Conclusion Destroyed Seekers War With Yourself

Author:Adyashanti

“I think Anarky's age is right now. He looks like a street protester. He looks like Anonymous. He's like one of these guys who wants to go out there and change the world to what he believes is the better, and I think of all the Batman enemies, and one of the reasons I'm most excited about Anarky, is he feels relevant today.”

Thinking World Want Feels Believe Looks Reason Age Today Guy Enemy Streets Right Now Excited Changing The World Relevant

Author:Eric Holmes