Thomas Becket

Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory. But the head faints when it is abandoned by the other members. If they had been wise they would have seen that in attacking me they were attacking their own privileges and serving princes to their own servitude.

English Clergyman

Reuven Rivlin

There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.

Israeli Politician

Ash Sarkar

It's important to recognise that opposing racism isn't just about presenting an alternative set of values; it's about looking at how the far right play on people's hardships in order to nurture a sense of enmity between white people and those racialised as migrants.

British Journalist

Liu Xiaobo

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Chinese Critic

Rene Girard

Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the same holds true for my readers. We only have legitimate enmities. And yet the entire universe swarms with scapegoats.

French Historian

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

Iranian Statesman

Preston Sturges

It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.

American Writer

Saadi

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Iranian Poet

Soren Kierkegaard

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Danish Philosopher

Akshaye Khanna

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

Indian Actor

Enmity suggests deep, often long-lasting feelings more intense than dislike.

Emotional Weight

Use enmity to imply an active state of opposition, not passive dislike.

Strong Opposition

Enmity can be directed towards people as well as ideas or entities.

Personal or Abstract

 would have to be whatever I carried around inside me and in so many ways I think this is a terrific liberation because when my grandparents were born they pretty much had their sense of home the sense of community even their sense of enmity assigned to them at birth and

Where is home? - Pico...

 I didn't break any laws. I was proud and grateful to be British -- I still am. And I bore no hostility against this, my country, nor enmity towards the non-Muslim citizens, and I still don't.