All About Quotes: QUOTES ABOUT ENEMIES

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

~Henry Kissinger

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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

~Stephen King

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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

~Sally Kempton

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

~John F. Kennedy

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If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy… he’ll know what to do with it.

~Doug Horton

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Man’s chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

~Ernest Jones

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

~Walt Kelly

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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

~Thomas Kempis

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Enemies are so stimulating.

~Katharine Hepburn

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One enemy is too much.

~George Herbert

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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

~Albert Einstein

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.

~Anonymous

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You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.

~Eskimo Proverb Quotes

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Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies.

~Anonymous

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It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

~Buddha

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Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

~Oscar Wilde

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.

~Anonymous

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend.

~Anonymous

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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

~Henry Kissinger

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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

~Benjamin Franklin

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He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.

~Chinese Proverbs

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You and I were long friends, you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

~Benjamin Franklin

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart, the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

~Mark Twain

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A flatterer is a secret enemy.

~Hungarian Proverb

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The nearest I can make it out, “Love your Enemies” means, “Hate your Friends.”

~Benjamin Franklin

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No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.

~Hitopadesa

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Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

~Benjamin Franklin

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In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

~Anne Sophie Swetchine

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Keep your enemies in front of you.

~Chris Matthews

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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

~Voltaire

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

~Benjamin Franklin

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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

~Benjamin Franklin

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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

~Euripides

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I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

~Gerald R. Ford

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

~Edward Dahlberg

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It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

~Frank Dane

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There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second is you family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?

~Anne E.G. Nydam

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This new year, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since… I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

~Wendell Berry

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Wrong. Enemies don’t fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with another.

~Heather Brewer

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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can’t bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

~Walter Kirn

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Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

~Mehmet Murat Ildan

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He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and no one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there.

~T.A. Miles

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The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reaches me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

~William Hazlitt

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Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

~Auberon Waugh

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I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

~Criss Jami

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The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

~John Lescroart

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My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

~John Stuart Mill

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At this hour, lie at my mercy all mine enemies.