
— Muammar Gaddafi Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942 - 2011
Time (9 April 1979) " World: An Interview with Gaddafi http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920211-1,00.html"
Interviews
1960s
— Muammar Gaddafi Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942 - 2011
Time (9 April 1979) " World: An Interview with Gaddafi http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920211-1,00.html"
Interviews
— Vasily Grossman Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer 1905 - 1964
1960s
„Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies?“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
This passage contains some phrases King later used in "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967) which has a section below.
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Contesto: Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies-or else? The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
„A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.“
— Terry Pratchett, libro Making Money
Origine: Making Money
„Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon“
— Max Frisch Swiss playwright and novelist 1911 - 1991
Sketchbook 1946-1949
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„We should support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.“
— Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976
Fánshì dírén fǎnduì de, wǒmen jiù yào yǒnghù; fánshì dírén yǒnghù de, wǒmen jiù yào fǎnduì.
If the enemy opposes, we must support it; if the enemy supports it, we must oppose it.
Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Interview with Three Correspondents from the Central News Agency, the Sao Tang Pao and the Hsin Min Pao (September 16, 1939), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 272.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Originale: (zh_Hant) 凡是敵人反對的,我們就要擁護;凡是敵人擁護的,我們就要反對。
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Contesto: We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
All this, however, is only true so long as we are concerned solely with attitudes towards other human beings. You might regard the soil as your enemy because it yields reluctantly a niggardly subsistence. You might regard Mother Nature in general as your enemy, and envisage human life as a struggle to get the better of Mother Nature. If men viewed life in this way, cooperation of the whole human race would become easy. And men could easily be brought to view life in this way if schools, newspapers, and politicians devoted themselves to this end. But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected. None of the three, therefore, can do anything towards saving the human race from reciprocal suicide.
— Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953
Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli.
Misattributed
„why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?“
— Rafik Schami German writer 1946
Origine: The Dark Side of Love
— P. W. Botha South African prime minister 1916 - 2006
As state president at a parade of the SA Police College, Pretoria, 20 June 1986, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 37
— Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976
"Rectify the Party's Style of Work" (1942)
Originale: (zh-CN) 为什么要有革命党?因为世界上有压迫人民的敌人存在,人民要推翻敌人的压迫,所以要有革命党。就资本主义和帝国主义时代说来,就需要一个如共产党这样的革命党。如果没有共产党这样的革命党,人民要想推翻敌人的压迫,简直是不可能的。我们是共产党,我们要领导人民打倒敌人,我们的队伍就要整齐,我们的步调就要一致,兵要精,武器要好。如果不具备这些条件,那末,敌人就不会被我们打倒。
— Vasily Grossman Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer 1905 - 1964
1960s
„So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!“
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire!
Verses of La Marseillaise written by Masclet https://books.google.fr/books?id=tAtItyiK9ywC&pg=PA17&dq=%22Que+tes+ennemis+expirants%22%2B%22Voient+ton+triomphe+et+notre+gloire+!%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6sKvNu_vOAhWCthoKHY12BFQQ6AEIHDAC#v=onepage&q=%22Que%20tes%20ennemis%20expirants%22%2B%22Voient%20ton%20triomphe%20et%20notre%20gloire%20!%22&f=false (in French). English translation by Iain Patterson ( marseillaise.org http://www.marseillaise.org/english/english.html).
„I would ask you all to be on your guard against the enemy within.“
— Clement Attlee Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1883 - 1967
There are those who would stop at nothing to injure our economy and our defence. The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. I know what a fine part the trade unionists of this country have played in our recovery effort. When they are asked to take unofficial action, which may hurt this country, let them just consider carefully whether the motives of those who ask them to strike are really concerned with the interests of the workers.
Broadcast (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
Prime Minister
„A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.“
— Lois McMaster Bujold, libro The Vor Game
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
„Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.“
— Orhan Pamuk Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient 1952
Origine: My Name is Red