Enemy Quotes

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The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The… — Sigmund Freud
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark… — Mike Rowe
Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us — Zoran
Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well. — E. W. Howe
Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy. — Henry Adams
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. — Henry Adams
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough. — Muhammad Ali
Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you. — Saint Augustine
I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. — Baltasar Gracian
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Man has not a greater enemy than himself. — Petrarch
MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If… — Phineas Quimby
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would… — Henry David Thoreau
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a… — Charles Spurgeon
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness… — Learned Hand
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The only enemy of art is taste. — Thomas Hoving
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia. — Mignon McLaughlin

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