Public servants Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?" "Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American…

— Omar El Akkad

“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”

— James Baldwin

“Laugh at your enemies.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.”

— Margarita Engle

“popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Enemies must have common ground. Else, they are not enemies but strangers.”

— Waldo Frank

“You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the…

— Hilary Mantel

“The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.”

— James McBride

“any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.”

— Lindsey Davis

“Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”

— Betty Friedan

“The man attempted to salute and Renius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure…

— Conn Iggulden

“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in…

— Chaim Potok