Top 1200 Political Enemies Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

I am very professional; I can work with my enemies, too.

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

President Trump is not a representative of the political establishment class. And so for whatever reason, people have made a decision that they want to eject him. It's almost like he's opened up the door now for America's CEOs and America's billionaires to enter the Washington political system.

For your enemies, keep the door open forever!

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)

Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long term will be healthy. We have to figure out how to reinvigorate our political institutions and he's demonstrating to us the urgency of that task.

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in which a democratic Europe would be integrated by multiple economic, political, and cultural links, and held together beneath an umbrella of American hegemony.

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

For historic reasons - principally the political Right's opposition to gay rights - most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.

He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.

I am friends with everyone but I make enemies in my league.

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

The people in my family couldn't adjust to the political atmosphere around me. I didn't want my political ambitions to cause stress or trauma for my family. I didn't want any name, fame, or money at the cost of my family.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Mark Carney is one of the enemies of Brexit. He has opposed it consistently.

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process. If that includes supporting a military exercise of some sort without sending troops, that is on the table, as long as this is not the only option that people look at.