Enemy Quotes · Page 121

“If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.”

— T.J. Kirk

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

— George Horace Lorimer

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

— Dalai Lama

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the…

— George S. Patton

However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We…

— Henry B. Eyring

When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now,…

— Mel Gibson

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and…

— Honore de Balzac

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we"…

— Anonymous

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

— Wendell Phillips

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many…

— Orson Scott Card

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my time…

— James Blunt

The enemy just hates our prayers.

— Francis Chan

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

— David Foster Wallace

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

— Isaac Newton

Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While…

— Toussaint Louverture

As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

— Stefan Molyneux

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

— Jose Bergamin

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

— Anthony Albanese

[Hillary Clinton] is also reckless. So reckless, in fact, that she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could…

— Donald Trump

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being…

— Norman Foster

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

— Muhammad Iqbal

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire,…

— Virginia Woolf

I'd rather have an enemy who slaps me in the face than a friend who stabs me in the back

— Anonymous

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will…

— Anna Akhmatova

Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to…

— Edward Gibbon

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

— Richard Rohr

“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned…

— Veronica Roth

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and…

— Rick Yancey

Susan: "...My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

— Joseph Campbell

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

— Taylor Branch

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

— Richard Perle

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

— Rupert Murdoch