Markus Zusak Quotes

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

Enmity immediately tumbles away when one side lets it fall.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

A needle’s eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes.

By exercising our moral leadership, we can transform a generation of potential enemies into a generation of friends.

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

Let the enemies of life step down.