Enemy Quotes
4792 quotes by 2645 authors
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it.…
— Ernest Renan
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Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our…
— Dale Carnegie
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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
— Andre Maurois
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
— Antisthenes
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Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out.
— Malcolm X
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who…
— Alfred Nobel
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits…
— Shirley Chisholm
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The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do…
— George F. Kennan
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our…
— Edward Abbey
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
— Edward Abbey
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
— Edward Abbey
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I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?
— Edward Abbey
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
— Edward Abbey
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There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
— Edward Abbey
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of…
— Edward Abbey
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
— Edward Abbey
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It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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