{"quotes":[{"text":"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies. ","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["women","men","enemies "],"id":845,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["active","against","appointed","bold","criticism","criticize","critics","design","disappointment","disappointments","enemies","fear","fears","foes","hate","haters-wise","israelmore-ayivor","loss","losses","obstacles","passionate","peace","strong","treasures","unseen","we-are-blessed","wealth","wealthy","work"],"id":3324,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You will meet people in life who will just dislike you for no reason, not because there is anything wrong with you but because everything is going right for you. Until they master their own peace, they will always try to destroy yours.","author":"Keysha Jade","tags":["enemies","friends","life-and-living","life-experiences","life-lessons","life-and-sayings"],"id":3451,"author_id":"Keysha+Jade"},{"text":"Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.","author":"Jacob M. Appel","tags":["advice","advice-for-daily-living","age","enemies","friends","history","younger","youth"],"id":3866,"author_id":"Jacob+M.+Appel"},{"text":"Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?","author":"Walter Kirn","tags":["2011","2011-tuscon-shooting","enemies","friends","partisanship","politics","twitter"],"id":4435,"author_id":"Walter+Kirn"},{"text":"Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["american-revolution","crime","dogma","enemies","feigned-morality","french-revolution","hypocrisy","injury","intention","justice","love","love-thy-enemy","loving","maxim","meaning","morality","motive","persecution","preach","premius","proverb","revenge","vague"],"id":4846,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.","author":"Kimberly Novosel","tags":["enemies","exes","football","forgiveness","heartbreak","love","relationships"],"id":6418,"author_id":"Kimberly+Novosel"},{"text":"The light of the Kingdom of God remains the strongest weapon for you to fight with in order to have a continuous victory over the enemies.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["danger","darkness","destruction","enemies","enemity","fights","god","ignorance","kingdom-kingdom-light","knowledge","life","light","mountain","people","power","victories","weapon"],"id":8203,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.","author":"Sabaa Tahir","tags":["enemies","mercy","war"],"id":9529,"author_id":"Sabaa+Tahir"},{"text":"I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women.","author":"Ben Fountain","tags":["enemies"],"id":10030,"author_id":"Ben+Fountain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":454,"pages":46,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}