Enemy Quotes · Page 79

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

— Rand Paul

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

— Paulo Coelho

“And then I got what she was saying. In the paranormal world, everyone was your enemy.”

— Jayde Scott

I've spent so much of life thinking of my body as my enemy.

— Alex Weisman

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

— Antonio Banderas

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

— Sun Tzu

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

— Plutarch

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

— J. Paul Getty

Perfection is our enemy... not because we don't want perfect candidates, but because perfect candidates don't exist.

— Michael Capuano

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate…

— Wale

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

— Hannah More

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they…

— Simon Bolivar

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

— James Mattis

Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You should always give a second chance to your enemies. But if you let him have more than that, you are an…

— Sachithra

They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.…

— Isaiah Berlin

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare…

— Geoffrey Fisher

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace…

— Abraham Kuyper

The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great…

— Peter Padfield

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an…

— Ahmet Ertegun

The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool…

— Muhammad Ali

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

— Robert Breault

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.”

— William Shakespeare

“Sometimes the enemy walks beside you, holds your hand and kisses your pretty lips.”

— Melody Lee

“Maxim 9: Never turn your back on an enemy. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.

— Chuck Todd

“The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.”

— Haruki Murakami

One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

— Stanley Crouch

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

— David Hume

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent.

— Paulo Coelho

“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.”

— Lao Tzu

“Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good.”

— Barry Eisler