Top 100 An Enemy Quotes
#1. I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
Adam Michnik
#2. Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
Charles Duhigg
#3. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
#4. Of whomsoever I had been Master (Mawla), Ali here is to be his Master. O Allah, be a supporter of whoever supports him (Ali) and an enemy of whoever opposes him.
Anonymous
#5. In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.
Hideo Kojima
#6. He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
James Howell
#7. Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.
Condoleezza Rice
#8. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
George R R Martin
#10. You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
Mike Tyson
#11. If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?
Aron Nimzowitsch
#12. We are almost men, not quite warriors, and on some fateful day we meet an enemy for the first time and we hear the chants of battle, the threatening clash of blades on shields, and we begin to learn that the poets are wrong and that the proud songs lie.
Bernard Cornwell
#13. The Supreme Leader's voice was flat. "You have compassion for her." "No - never. Compassion? For an enemy of the Order?" "I perceive the problem," Snoke intoned. "It isn't her strength that is making you fail. It's your weakness." The rebuke hurt, but Ren didn't show it.
Alan Dean Foster
#14. In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Raoul Vaneigem
#15. If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.
Natan Sharansky
#16. An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.
Sophocles
#17. People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#18. It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.
Bonaventure
#19. Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
Victor Davis Hanson
#20. Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Richard Steele
#21. To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.
Nelson Mandela
#22. It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
Frank Herbert
#23. Rearden sat in his room at the Wayne-Falkland Hotel, fighting an enemy more dangerous than weariness or fear: revulsion against the thought of having to deal with human beings.
Ayn Rand
#24. Without a passport humans wouldn't know where they're from, who they are or who their enemy is, and their enemy wouldn't know why they had an enemy, what language they spoke, and where best to avoid.
The passport is said to be what makes them free, but if freedom is given, freedom cannot be free.
Craig Stone
#25. My God, Judge, do men believe whatever lie they hear about an enemy?
Kenneth Roberts
#26. You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission.
Alexander Freed
#27. Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.
Gautama Buddha
#28. The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#29. Sir 12:8 A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.
Various
#30. Name-calling will make you an enemy, not an ally, and if that is your objective, then persuasion is probably not what you were after in the first place.
Steven D. Levitt
#31. A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Mario Puzo
#32. Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Wilhelm Steinitz
#35. Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words.
R.K. Narayan
#36. Only man can be an enemy for man; only he can rob him of the meaning of his acts and his life because it also belongs only to him alone to confirm it in its existence, to recognize it in actual fact as a freedom
Simone De Beauvoir
#37. It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.
John Updike
#38. My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.
Mark Twain
#39. An enemy is defeated by keeping quite, a demon by a prayer.
Andries Kumalo
#40. When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.
Midnight Blue
#41. Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#42. The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
Elliott Abrams
#43. A prudent person after all can pick something
Even from an enemy.
Aristophanes
#44. This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37)
Ishmael Beah
#45. If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.
Francis Quarles
#46. If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
Tonya Hurley
#47. The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
Will Self
#48. Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
Benjamin Franklin
#49. We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
Cleobulus
#51. Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.'
You threw away my purse.'
I thought it was an enemy.
Obert Skye
#52. Sir 12:18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy feet.
Various
#53. A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace
Chanakya
#54. There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
Charles Lindbergh
#55. I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.
Gerald L. Sittser
#57. Man sows good wheat seed in his field, but later finds that an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat. When the workers ask if they should pull the weeds out, the farmer tells them to allow both wheat and weeds to grow until the time of the harvest, when the two can be more easily separated.
Stephan A. Hoeller
#58. A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.
Tim O'Brien
#59. Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
Stephen Vizinczey
#60. True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.
Morihei Ueshiba
#61. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#62. To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
Sun Tzu
#64. Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?
Jacob Bronowski
#65. Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes
#67. He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
Gautama Buddha
#69. Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. And from that day to this, the wise men of Ishana say one to another secretly, "Is it not known, and has it not been said from of old, that Ishana is ruled by an enemy?"
-Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#71. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi
#72. If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.
Cass McCombs
#73. I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
Lech Walesa
#74. It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. - Sally Kempton
David Allen
#75. To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
Vanna Bonta
#76. Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His
Ji-li Jiang
#77. Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of.
Edmund Burke
#78. In Christ alone there is deliverance from man's tortured thoughts and freedom from the sordid habits which are destroying so many people. Why does the Bible so clearly denounce drunkenness? Because it is an enemy of human life. Anything that is against a person's welfare, God is against.
Billy Graham
#79. Thou didst love me before I loved thee,
an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm.
Arthur Bennett
#80. Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Henry Fielding
#81. Do you know what you can do to an enemy but not to a friend? Stab her in the back.
Brent Weeks
#82. An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
Publilius Syrus
#83. We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be a great man, but more importantly, maybe a happy one. There's
Mark Lawrence
#84. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work, Gal. vi. 9; Heb. xii. 1; 2 Cor. vii. 1.
John Owen
#85. The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that is truly attractive.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?
M.J. Mandoki
#87. There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs
#88. For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy.
Dalai Lama XIV
#89. I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right.
Michael Pollan
#90. It's not that bad. Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it's all an enemy plot, at least there's someone calling the shots.
James S.A. Corey
#91. An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
Eugene Ionesco
#92. The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.
Robert Altman
#93. I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde, which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#94. You shall forget that I am part of an enemy army, I shall forget that you are a woman who spends much of her time working out how to subvert that army, and we shall just . . . be two people?
Jojo Moyes
#95. Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were such a thing to come about, I would not complain even if my body were torn to pieces, again and again.
Ruth Ozeki
#96. I'd rather die at the hands of a friend than an enemy.
Stephen King
#97. Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,
but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Benjamin Franklin
#99. These days you don't need a country to have a flag, you don't need to win an election to become president, and you don't need an enemy to have a war.
Marshall Thornton
#100. Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what.
Ymatruz
