Enemy Quotes

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Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine… — Criss Jami
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody… — Criss Jami
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not… — Criss Jami
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. — Charles de Lint
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy. — Dwayne Andreas
It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as… — Desmond Tutu
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it. — Jean de la Bruyere
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean de la Bruyere
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,… — Charles Caleb Colton
I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the… — Arthur Ashe
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who… — William Hazlitt
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of… — Ronald Reagan
An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country. — Bill Vaughan
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within. — Bill Vaughan
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance . — Ben Jonson
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other… — John Boyle O'Reilly

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