Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

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

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

Some people have interpreted the title of the show - 'Love' - as ironic. For me, it's sincere. The idea that we have to agree with love is a genuine statement about love.

It is easy to underestimate the demands of an open heart.

I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.

I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.