Top 15 Enmity Quotes

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else‘s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

Hatred is corrosive of a person‘s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society‘s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity – enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means ‘Western education is a sin,’ is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram’s goals.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.