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“...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.”

World Problem Would Be Fighting Energy Force Enemy Movement Duty Bounds Congress Jew Destroyed Germany Civilized Acceptable Cried Boycott

Author:Ze'ev Jabotinsky

“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.”

Has Beens Made Would Be Earth Jesus Christ Enemy Return Authority Jesus Christ Creeds Devoted Founders

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

Ifs Men Should War Ends Country Would Be Enemy He Man Revolution India China Esteem Beaten Englishmen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.”

World Giving Has Beens Would Be Hate Politics Enemy Air Politician Injury Resentment Quarrels Partisans Pretext Disinterested Crafty

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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 knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.”

Ifs Play Would Be Enemy Conditions Shots Germany Occupation Captured Belgium

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.”

Would Be Age Religious Attitude Enemy Teach Mines Higher Humble Foolish Be Humble Higher Power

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.”

“How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.”

Book Would Be Past Attention Enemy Study Healthy Sick Depth Worthy Analysis Unconscious Priests Thrilling Jars Forecasts Not Worthy Fetus Consoling Old Books

Author:Edmund White

“My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter - with infinite subtlety - spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, - and tell stories of me to people whom it would be vanity and vexation to meet; - and they help me so much by their unconscious aid that I almost love them.”

People Helping Stories Would Be Hate Enemy Dangerous My Friends I Hate Infinite Aids Vanity Unconscious Help Me Latter Subtlety Vexation Almost Love

Book:The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters

Source: The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.”

Ifs War Would Be Together Form Numbers Enemy Cutting Fronts Get Together No War

Author:Albert Kesselring

“The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.”

World Giving Humans War Would Be Courses Evil Enemy History Progress Victory Affair Triumph Civil War Civilized Destined American Civil War Turning Points Damp Enemy Of Progress

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

People Would Be Law Motivation Given Nations Difficult Enemy Issues Protect Concerned Program Related Privacy Scope Nsa

Author:Mitch McConnell

“Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.”

Trying I Can Would Be Wanted Enemy Roles Records Groups Decided Crowds Rap Hype Back In The Day Mics Public Enemies

Author:Flavor Flav

“Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get, sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.”

People Ifs Men Way Would Be Enemy Imagine Building Willing Miracle Down And Angry Bombs Airplane

Author:Matthew Modine

“All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.”

Ifs Knows Men World Should Would Be Enemy Broken Distance Silly Ceremony Decency Defence Silly Things

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.”

Ifs Happens Would Be Fighting Enemy Right Now Democrat Critical Ridiculous Allies Dictator

Author:Natan Sharansky

“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.”

Mean War Ends Country Would Be Lasts Fighting Enemy Economy Destruction Army Property Soldier Strikes Damage Camps Trenches Continuance

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.”

People World Has Beens War Would Be Causes Enemy Failing Tests Machines Justification Love One Another

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.”

Littles Would Be Pay Enemy Judging Doctors Reputation Prisoner Virtuous Trusted Salary Verdict Prosecutor

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, 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, Lectures, 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

“One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?”

Ifs Men Way Should War Facts Would Be Order Perfect Enemy Information Movement Ignorant Combination Adversaries Proceeding Obtaining

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Two Different War Country Would Be Political Force Goal Enemy Air Keys Conflict Creating Rate Extremes Objectives Hardship Denied Geography Air Force Unleashed

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.”

Soul Ends Would Be Earth Nations Natural Enemy Ocean Bottom Ill British Satisfied Britain Continents Great Britain Bonfire Natural Enemies

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.”

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Author:Emily Lloyd