Enemy Quotes · Page 115

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

— Arnold Bennett

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

— Emile M. Cioran

If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Hannah More

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

— Kevin McCloud

“No one is my enemy or the Gospel's... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free.”

— Bill Myers

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

— Thomas Hobbes

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush…

— Manfred von Richthofen

I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion…

— Garry Kasparov

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the…

— Edwin M. Stanton

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the…

— Dan Savage

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a…

— Frans de Waal

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

— Chuck D

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight,…

— Hans Fallada

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp…

— Lillian Smith

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your…

— Terence McKenna

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,…

— Victor Hugo

We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy…

— Ashraf Ghani

“Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray…

— Anonymous

How so? Briefly, apart from the gospel and outside of Christ, the law is my enemy and condemns me. Why? Because God…

— Anonymous

“They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so…

— William Hazlitt

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

— Laird Hamilton

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

— Colin Powell

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

— George Horace Lorimer

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

— Adam Johnson

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

— Abraham Lincoln

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

— Ben Okri

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

— Henry A. Kissinger

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

— Jeff Sharlet

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Don't fear the enemy that attacks you, but the false friend that hugs you.

— Nishan Panwar

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

— Benjamin Franklin

I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.

— John Waters

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

— Pericles

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

— James Clavell