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“When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.”

Ifs Want Littles Done Evil Enemy Five Prove Shame Angry Add Injustice Curse Obsessed Bless Cursed Hideous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.”

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Author:Isoroku Yamamoto

“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”

Giving May Eye Spirit Enemy Sun Clear Doubt Strength Give Me Shame Defeat Setting Settings Fades Give Me Strength Cherokee Clear Eyes

Author:P. C. Cast

“Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!”

Looks Enemy Shame Adam Cried Wenches

Book:Grave Doubts

Source: Grave Doubts

“There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.”

Ifs Enough Strong Enemy Shame Retreat Strong Enough Strategic

Author:Jane Lindskold

“Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.”

Firsts May Doe Eye Fall Evil Sin Enemy Hell Devil Shame Blind Guilt Commit Ruins Dumb Labour Sinner Confession Malice Offending

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.”

“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”

“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.”

Men Doe Made Matter Certain Sleep Enemy Seeing Military Pride Shame Determined Outraged Smitten Appraisal Military Man Counter Attack

Author:Isoroku Yamamoto

“The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.”

Shows Government Able Lying Silence Liberty Enemy Proud Hero Shame Treated Allowing Patriot Incidents Israeli Sailor American Government Minions Servicemen Disheartening

Author:James Abourezk

“When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.”

Enemy Shame Blame Distance West East Get Back

Author:Louie Giglio

“Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.”

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Book:The Riches of Bunyan

Source: The Riches of Bunyan

“The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.”

Ifs Knows Enemy Shame Intimacy Intimacy With God Minimizing

Author:Mike Bickle

“Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.”

Stars Enemy Murder Shame Oppression Symbols Mortals Civil War Flags Spy Banner Stripes Plunder Confederate American Flag Mortal Enemies

Book:My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

Source: My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

“Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.”

Ifs Evil Enemy Prove Shame

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche