Enemy Quotes
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Ancient Jews had no expectation—zero expectation—that the future messiah would die and rise from the dead. That was not what the messiah was supposed to do. Whatever specific idea any Jew had about the messiah (as cosmic judge, mighty priest, powerful warrior), what they all thought was that he would be a figure of grandeur and power who would be a mighty ruler of Israel. And Jesus was certainly not that. Rather than destroying the enemy, Jesus was destroyed by the enemy—arrested, tortured, and crucified, the most painful and publicly humiliating form of death known to the Romans. Jesus, in short, was just the opposite of what Jews expected a messiah to be.
Bart Ehrman
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The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.
David Novak
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Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.
Edward S. Curtis
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emil Cioran
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Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
Benedict of Nursia
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.
William Blake
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
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These are the final rites of the funeral of the Cold War, with Russia as a friend and ally and no longer as an enemy.
Jack Straw
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
George Lakoff
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William James
