“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”

“Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.”

“As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.”

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

“It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?”

“the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns.”