Best treats & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

Littles Pay Enemy Nice Honor Cost Losing Advantage Treats Valuable Honored Courtesy Politeness Dividends

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.”

Trying Running Enemy Rights Treats Depriving

Author:Malcolm X

“As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.”

Body House Enemy Advice Treats Dresses Tables Your Body

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.”

Source: Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz

“The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.”

Ifs Men World Should Has Beens Enemy Taught Sweet Brother Gay Messages News Capable Capacity Treats Heal Liberation Competitors Gay Liberation

Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?”

Source: The Healing Power of Kindness

“It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.”

Men War Feelings Enemy Battle Ideals Hatred Treats Honour

Author:Ernst Junger

“In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.”

Use Reality Justice Enemy Cases Groups News Percent Treats Murder Everyday Journalism Target Reporters Spy Transmit Impunity Staggering Insurgent

Author:Mariane Pearl

“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

“If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.”

People Ifs Turns Enemy Respect Dignity Treats Disguise Respecting Others Friendliness Social Interaction Moguls

Author:Ted Turner

“In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.”

Should Hate Christ Prayer Perfect Enemy Example Taught Praying Treats Regard Taught Us

Book:The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross

Source: The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross

“The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.”

Play Facts Nations President Interest Powerful Enemy Fine Treats Balls China Administration Corporate Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Venezuela

Book:Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

Source: Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

“Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.”

Littles Friendship Enemy Treats Loving Your Enemies

Author:E. W. Howe

“No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.”

Knows Men Should Children Philosophy Pay Attention Enemy Wife Life Philosophy Treats Neighbor Pay Attention Sermons Lectures Subordinates Delivering

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.”

Men Looks Has Beens Jesus Left Behinds Enemy Kings Treats Left Behind Luther Free Man

Author:Laurence Boldt

“Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.”

Ifs Men Wells May Said Country Facts America Enemy Democracy Ideals Treats Tragedy Aim Curse Our Society Iron Respectable Vacuums

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Wherever you go, whether it be a college campus or the New York Times or ABC News or Venezuela or Cuba or the former Soviet Union, it's amazing how the speech codes and the trying to shut up dissent is a defining aspect of the left because they believe so firmly in their utopian ideals that anyone who would disagree with that utopia is an enemy of the state, and they treat them as such.”

“We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.”

Ifs Should Play Facts Hands Would Be Values Enemy Victory Treats Terrorist Sentiments Betray Caves

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”

Should War Evil Nations Secret Known Enemy Citizens Authority Treats Affair Plot Tyrants Concealed

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.”

People Knows War Government Desire Enemy Treats Treated Rebel Barbarians Barbaric

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Source: The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

“The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”

Way Christian Jesus Enemy Brother Source Behavior Treats Determined Treatment Hostility

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.”

“You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.”

Ifs Men War Speak Enemy Kings Devil Treats Ill Every Man Total War Frenchmen

Author:Horatio Nelson

“To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.”

Hate Enemy Hatred Treats Add Fuel Despise Blunt Magnanimity

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”

Ifs Death Certain Humanity Fighting Enemy Dying Amount Terrible Disease Dignity Treats Indifference Gentleman Decency

Author:Robin Williams

“It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.”

Speak Enemy Treats Disarming

Author:Morley Safer

“I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.”

May Fighting Enemy Path Advice Mercy Treats Surrender Revolutionary Guidance Unbroken Giving Up Is Not An Option Never Surrender

Author:Eamonn Ceannt

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