--- title: "11 Natural Enemy Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Natural Enemy quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Natural Enemy sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f43/brian-k-vaughan-2421_funny_well-robots-are-of-course-the-monkey-s-n_2128354.png" --- > [“Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-k-vaughan/well-robots-are-of-course-the-monkey-s-natural-enemy/) [Brian K. Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-k-vaughan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f43/brian-k-vaughan-2421_funny_well-robots-are-of-course-the-monkey-s-n_2128354.png) > [It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/demetri-martin/it-seems-that-man-s-greatest-natural-enemy-is-the-target/) [Demetri Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/demetri-martin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/demetri-martin-511_enemy_it-seems-that-man-s-greatest-natural-ene_1752480.jpg) > [I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shana-alexander/i-don-t-believe-man-is-woman-s-natural-enemy-perhaps-his-lawyer-is/) [Shana Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shana-alexander/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/817/shana-alexander-11547_believe_i-don-t-believe-man-is-woman-s-natural-e_1323390.png) > [Government is the natural enemy of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garet-garrett/government-is-the-natural-enemy-of-freedom/) [Garet Garrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garet-garrett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c20/garet-garrett-20447_enemy_government-is-the-natural-enemy-of-freed_654550.png) > [The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-industrial-corporation-is-the-natural-enemy-of-nature/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e4/edward-abbey-254_corporations_the-industrial-corporation-is-the-natura_3038951.png) > [A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-brownell-jameson/a-canadian-settler-hates-a-tree-regards-it-as-his-natural-enemy-as/) [Anna Brownell Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-brownell-jameson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/anna-brownell-jameson-10406_destroyed_a-canadian-settler-hates-a-tree-regards_1737327.jpg) > [Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-d-wright/uniformity-in-its-motives-its-goals-its-far-ranging-consequences-is/) [C.D. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-d-wright/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/c-d-wright-28793_consequence_uniformity-in-its-motives-its-goals-its_2877620.png) > [The greatest natural enemy of women is insecurity. We all feel it and we all think we are the only ones who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-von-furstenberg/the-greatest-natural-enemy-of-women-is-insecurity-we-all-feel-it-and/) [Diane von Furstenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-von-furstenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88f/diane-von-furstenberg-1664_deals_the-greatest-natural-enemy-of-women-is-i_1299631.jpg) > [We would not have hurt the child, even if she is our natural enemy. Nor would we have hurt you, if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-vincent/we-would-not-have-hurt-the-child-even-if-she-is-our-natural-enemy-nor/) [Rachel Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-vincent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f58/rachel-vincent-677_bird_we-would-not-have-hurt-the-child-even-if_1320555.jpg) > [“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/we-have-a-perfect-idea-of-a-natural-enemy-when-we-think-of-the-devil/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/233/thomas-paine-267_history_we-have-a-perfect-idea-of-a-natural-enem_2155712.jpg) > [“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/separated-from-the-rest-of-europe-she-has-contracted-an-unsocial/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54f/thomas-paine-267_habits_separated-from-the-rest-of-europe-she-ha_814850.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/natural-enemy/#itemlist", "name": "Natural Enemy Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brian K. 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The expression has been often used, and always with a fraudulent design; for when the idea of a natural enemy is conceived, it prevents all other inquiries and the real cause of the quarrel is hidden in the universality of the conceit. Men start at the notion of a natural enemy, and ask no other question. 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