Enemies Quotes

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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? — Edward Abbey
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can… — Shane Claiborne
Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive… — Susan Sontag
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. — Abraham Lincoln
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften… — Robert Louis Stevenson
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death... — Osamu Tezuka
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up… — Vikram Seth
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are… — Aldous Huxley
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head… — Stephen King
After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for revenge.… — N.D. Wilson
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the… — Thomas Pynchon
Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. — Christopher Paolini
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are… — Barry Lopez
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. — Carl Sagan
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. — Orson Scott Card
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them. — Patricia Briggs
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies. — John Christopher
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. — Emily Bronte
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat… — Baruch Spinoza
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. — Richelle Mead
I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. — Cormac McCarthy
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be… — Bertolt Brecht
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and… — Gregory David Roberts
Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? — John Boyne

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