This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Phyllis Schlafly, fully Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
Pirke Avot, "Verses of the Fathers" or "Ethics of the Fathers" NULL
Samuel the Younger used to say (Proverbs 24:17-18) “Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble, or else the Lord will see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from them.”
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
A conversation should be conducted so that your conversational partners transform themselves from your enemies into your friends and not vice versa.
Conversation | Friends | Vice |
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Raymond Aron, fully Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Future |
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, fully Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange
The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe; they are intolerant in practice because they do not love.
His enemies will humble themselves before the one who builds a place of worship.
Will |
Ramakrishna, aka Ramakrishna Paramhamsa or Sri Ramakrishna, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay NULL
When a house is on fire, at first a few things inside burn. Then comes the great commotion. Just so, the fire of Knowledge at first destroys such enemies of spiritual life as passion, anger, and so forth. Then comes the turn of ego.
Rashi, born Shlomo ben Yitzchok, aka Salomon Isaacides, Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki NULL
I will make the land [so] desolate- This is [actually] a kindly measure for Israel, for their enemies will not find any satisfaction in their land, for it will be desolate of its inhabitants.
Reinhold Niebuhr, fully Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
Without repentance those who have created peace through their power imagine that they have created pure peace: and suffer from the delusion that the enemies of their peace are God
Delusion | Peace | Power | Repentance |
Reinhold Niebuhr, fully Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
Without repentance those who have crated peace through their power imagine that they have created pure peace: and suffer from the delusion that the enemies of their peace are God
Delusion | Peace | Power | Repentance |
Rebecca West, pen name of Mrs. Cicily Maxwell Andrews, born Fairfield, aka Dame Rebecca West
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.
Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.