Enemy Quotes
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice…
— Bertrand Russell
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
— Sun Tzu
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When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
— Arthur Miller
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Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind…
— Dalai Lama
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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try…
— Warren Buffett
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
— Akio Morita
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It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now…
— Nate Saint
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
— Plutarch
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Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
— Nelly Mazloum
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Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
— Matt Lucas
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