Top 50 Enemy And Ally Quotes
#1. I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew
as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society
the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally.
Irena Klepfisz
#2. There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Charles De Secondat
#3. The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William James
#4. We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.
Deepak Chopra
#5. Once you tell a lie, the truth is your enemy; and every truth connected to that truth, and every ally of truth in general; all of these you must oppose, to protect the lie. Whether you're lying to others, or to yourself.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#6. I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away?
Ally Condie
#7. It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Lord Paulmerston
#8. Ally.' He said slowly, tasting it. Friend, lover, target, hunter, victor, mutt, fiancee, enemy. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out.
Suzanne Collins
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.
Primo Levi
#12. The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. 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
#14. Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
Brent Scowcroft
#15. If you can't have another ally," I said at last, "next best thing is to give your enemy another enemy.
Benedict Jacka
#16. To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.
Sun Tzu
#17. Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Zig Ziglar
#18. Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.
Anodea Judith
#19. How do you steal a Republic? By convincing its people that they cannot govern themselves - that freedom is their enemy and that fear is their ally.
Chuck Wendig
#20. Make uncertainty your ally, not your enemy. All leaps forward depend on reaching into the unknown. Once you see the unknown as the source of creativity, you no longer fear it. Instead, you welcome the fact that life renews itself in unexpected ways.
Deepak Chopra
#22. In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.
James Clavell
#23. Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.
Addison Moore
#24. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
Peter Brook
#26. There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.
Jeffrey Fry
#27. To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
Jacqueline Carey
#28. The Society made it clear: we're not to injure each other. That's for the Enemy to do.
Ally Condie
#29. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
Sherwood Smith
#31. Your mind is the most powerful wonder. It can be your greatest enemy or your closest ally.
There are no limits to what you can achieve if only you believe.
Michelle Horst
#32. I'm not sure if it's because of us or because of the Enemy. I wonder who they think is the bigger threat.
Ally Condie
#33. Was there no hope for men? They killed those they should have loved. What good was it to fight, what good was it to win, if there was no difference between ally and enemy? What was victory? Meaningless.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.
Barry Unsworth
#35. Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.
Justin Sane
#36. Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.
George W. Bush
#37. The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely - which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
Sydney J. Harris
#38. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)
Katy Butler
#39. You will lose your hand, find your fist and gain an ally. You will also meet your enemy face-to-face.
James A. Moore
#40. It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.
John Scalzi
#42. We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.
Chuck Baldwin
#44. An enemy is always an enemy, even when they're an ally. - Taraeth
Donna Grant
#45. My name is Cammie!" I didn't think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, "How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can't tell me.
Ally Carter
#46. Fool girl. An enemy isn't always an enemy. Sometimes, in the rare moments, we can be the greatest ally.
Tijan
#47. Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.
Suzanne Collins
#48. Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
Wes Fesler
#49. Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Eckhart Tolle
#50. Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
B.H. Liddell Hart
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