Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

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

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Money
  • Brain

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Opponent

• I am not an enemy of Adventism.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Enemy
  • Adventism

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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  • Wait

• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Friend

• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Propaganda

• Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Power
  • War

• We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Things
  • Enemy

• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  

  Washington Irving
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Natural

• Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Intelligent

• If anyone asks how old I am, tell them it's none of their business!

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Business
  • Ifs
  • Asks

• The fame thing doesn't really worry me. There's nothing I like better than getting up on stage and playing in front of several thousand people. The fact that the other guys get all the limelight doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Ian Hill Judas Priest
  • Like
  • Worry
  • Playing

• I wish I were as good a man as my son is.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Son

• In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Society
  • Distance

• I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • Different
  • Attention

• If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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