Enemy Quotes
4792 quotes by 2505 authors
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They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
— Terry Pratchett
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Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is…
— Ayn Rand
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For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook…
— James M. Barrie
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is…
— Thomas Merton
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The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear
— Stephen Colbert
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
— Anne Rice
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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
— Aristotle
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
— George Orwell
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If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and…
— Dalai Lama
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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely…
— William Faulkner
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. .…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that…
— Voltaire
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
— George Orwell
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The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
— George Orwell
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get…
— Mark Twain
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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