His Enemy Quotes
56 quotes by 49 authors
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For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
— Sun Bin
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He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.
— Sun Tzu
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good.…
— Laozi
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The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.
— L. David Mech
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It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns…
— Ori Hofmekler
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A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and…
— Genghis Khan
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Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.
— E. W. Howe
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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
— Mark Twain
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We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he…
— Chief Seattle
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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only…
— Assata Shakur
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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
— Eric Maisel
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A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent…
— Thomas Paine
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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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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin…
— Victor Hugo
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It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming. Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind…
— J R Ward
Who Wrote These His Enemy Quotes
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