Foe Quotes
351 quotes by 263 authors
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
— Frank Herbert
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Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
— Henry Norris Russell
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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.…
— Joseph Rodman Drake
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
— Gautama Buddha
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil…
— Gautama Buddha
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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
— Gautama Buddha
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The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science…
— Shimon Peres
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet…
— Boris Johnson
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,…
— Ernst Junger
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
— John McCrae
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Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
— Peter Singer
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Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with…
— Henry Newbolt
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He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was…
— Unknown Author
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I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.
— Charles Evans Hughes
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The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated…
— William Galston
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