Enemies And Tolerance Quotes & Sayings

Don't hate the Muslims or Islam. Hate if you must, the fundamentalists who consistently compel the human society to turn away from even the peace loving Muslims. However, the term hate would be an understatement when we are referring to the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists are the biggest enemies of the human race. Without the presence of the fundamentalist inspiration, no violence in the name of religion shall ever fester on this planet. People from all religious, spiritual and non-religious background shall live in harmony, enriching each other's lives, if there are no fundamentalists to divide them apart. — Abhijit Naskar

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him. — Mark Twain

Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness. — Dalai Lama

Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies. — Abhijit Naskar

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come. — Trip Adler

Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind. — Dalai Lama

Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth - give berth to your worldview. — Kamini Arichandran

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies. — Dalai Lama XIV

That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside."
"Or give them a chance to redeem themselves. — Derek Landy

Americans generally agree that they should not change their way of life, or cede their tolerance of satirical movies or inflammatory cartoons, in order to conciliate their enemies. A corollary might be that the United States should preserve the principle of treating prisoners humanely even if Americans die as a result. The country does not pay ransom to terrorists; perhaps it should also not surrender its values to them. — Anonymous

I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people. — Joel Osteen

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. — Dalai Lama XIV

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction — Wallace D. Wattles

A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure. — Carlo Petrini

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them. — Patricia Briggs

I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions. — Julianne Hough

Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why should any human being in the world be merely tolerated? What man has ever made a sacrifice in the name of tolerance? It leads men, instead, to express their own egotism in a book or a lecture that patronizes the downtrodden group. One of the cruelest things that can happen to a human being is to be tolerated. Never once did Our Lord say, "Tolerate your enemies!" But He did say, "Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you" (Matt. 5:44). Such love can be achieved only if we deliberately curb our fallen nature's animosities. — Fulton J. Sheen

If I lose my honor,
I lose myself: better I were not yours
Than yours so branchless. — William Shakespeare

It is in relation to enemies that we can primarily practice patience and tolerance and thus reduce the burden of anger and hatred. — Dalai Lama XIV