Numerically Superior Enemy

Famous quotes containing the words numerically, superior and/or enemy:

    I believe that the miseries consequent on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are so great as imperiously to command the attention of all dedicated lives; and that while the abolition of American slavery was numerically first, the abolition of the liquor traffic is not morally second.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
    Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)