Enemy Quotes
4792 quotes by 2505 authors
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should…
— Ron Paul
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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
— Richard Perle
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual…
— Petrarch
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My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll…
— Unknown Author
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
— Wendell Phillips
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
— Pablo Picasso
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Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative…
— Steven Pinker
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Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who…
— Steven Pinker
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The…
— Sylvia Plath
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what…
— Plutarch
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
— Colin Powell
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Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and…
— Colin Powell
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Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
— Vladimir Putin
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Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
— Mario Puzo
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's…
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
— Yitzhak Rabin
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Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our…
— Tariq Ramadan
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
— Ronald Reagan
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
— Samuel Richardson
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