Mark Steyn Quotes

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

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

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Now, I believe that one of the reasons that Jesus was accused of being a homosexual is because he spent time with homosexuals. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

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.

It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.

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