Top 100 Quotes About Enemies

#1. A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.

Genghis Khan

#2. War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.

William T. Sherman

#3. Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#4. Enemies Teach. Friends Preach.

Tapan Ghosh

#5. My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy?

Susan Ee

#6. Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Dalai Lama

#7. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#8. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

Stephen Richards

#9. your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. The rapture will neutralize natural death; God's enemies will be begging for a way out of the world.

Felix Wantang

#11. A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.

Santosh Kalwar

#12. The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

Benazir Bhutto

#13. When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. Not really. They're fighting to destroy their enemies.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#14. People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers).

Raniero Cantalamessa

#15. faithful, resolute, alive, You and the Two Lands that has no enemies; This life is no more than a dream, so seize the day before it passes!

Stephanie Thornton

#16. If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.

Johnny Depp

#18. He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

John Owen

#19. My lord is coming, and he will have no mercy on his enemies!

Jason Tesar

#20. Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

Joan Of Arc

#22. Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Edward Abbey

#23. I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve," returned he, "either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.

James Hogg

#24. Our enemies are not the Jews or the Christians, our enemy is our own ignorance.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

#25. Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends ... unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies ... assuming they're sexy.

Chuck Klosterman

#26. It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies ... Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting.

Nahoko Uehashi

#27. Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#28. Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

Gene Simmons

#29. The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

Randall Terry

#30. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

#31. I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Dave Matthews

#32. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

Dale Spender

#33. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John Cage

#34. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

Bertrand Russell

#35. You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.

Robert Jeffress

#36. The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

#37. With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.

Karl Popper

#38. The struggle for existence never gets easier. However well a species may adapt to its environment, it can never relax, because its competitors and its enemies are also adapting to their niches. Survival is a zero-sum game.

Matt Ridley

#39. We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clanmates. Our enemies are already dead. They fight only out of hate and that will be their weakness.

Erin Hunter

#40. I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.

Pierce Brown

#41. I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Salman Rushdie

#42. Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

Dave Brubeck

#43. The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

Alyson Noel

#45. He who learns from his enemies is as wise
as he who learns from his friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#46. Although member countries ratified the UN's millennium goals, fighting enemies represents by far the biggest allocation of most countries' resources.

Joyce F Benenson

#47. If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Winston Churchill

#48. FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

Morihei Ueshiba

#49. In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.

Redd

#50. There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

Daniel Abraham

#51. I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in politics. At least here you're allowed to shoot your enemies.

Brian McClellan

#52. The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Arthur Miller

#53. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Max Lerner

#54. Ultimately we cannot eliminate enemies through violence - violence only multiplies enemies. The only way to eliminate enemies is to love them, forgive them,

Brian Zahnd

#55. Wow. What would you do if I said I was angry?'
'I would make fire rain from the heavens to smite your enemies with the flames of our shared rage.

Rachel Vincent

#56. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

#57. If you have enemies, forgive them. Forgiveness is always the best revenge and unforgettable punishment.

Debasish Mridha

#58. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Pythagoras

#59. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

#60. More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

Leslie Ford

#61. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Ambrose Bierce

#62. Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.

Bobby Jamieson

#63. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#64. When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling ... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

Marilyn Manson

#65. There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Melanie Laurent

#66. Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Louis L'Amour

#67. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

#68. A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?

Plutarch

#69. Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa -- six years I've longed for a Tainish word from a friendly tongue!
Quigley: Keep longing.

Ashley Cope

#70. The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

Doug Bandow

#71. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies
Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work.

David Petersen

#72. A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#73. I play my enemies like a game of chess

Lauryn Hill

#74. Enough! We have enough enemies as it is! There are worse things out there to face!"
Celaena slowly turned to him, her face splattered with blood and eyes blazing bright. "No, there aren't," she said. "Because I'm here now.

Sarah J. Maas

#75. Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The

John Perkins

#76. Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Sun Tzu

#77. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Henry David Thoreau

#79. Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in their place.1 "Now, Isaiah 9:11: "Therefore the LORD shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on.

Jonathan Cahn

#80. You've got enemies? Good. That means you actually stood up for something in your life.

Eminem

#81. Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

Plutarch

#82. A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

Nancy Gibbs

#83. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Henry Fielding

#84. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Blaise Pascal

#85. Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Bob Riley

#86. Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Bertrand Russell

#87. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d

Amanda Lovelace

#88. He was a person who thrived on company, who desired camaraderie, even in its lowest, most base form; he felt that just seeing other people, no matter the circumstances, even if the people were enemies, filled you with health, gave you a reason to live

Karan Mahajan

#89. But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ... . Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Gary Chapman

#90. He was always very kind and considerate to anybody below him," recalled Harold Cherniss. "But not at all to people who might be considered his intellectual equals. And this, of course, irritated people, made people very angry, and made him enemies." Wendell

Kai Bird

#91. While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything. A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.

Robert Greene

#92. Choose your friends carefully but don't worry about your enemies, they will choose you

Carl Henegan

#93. Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.

Dillon Burroughs

#94. Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Marcus Garvey

#95. Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#96. If you have no enemies, you have no character.

Paul Newman

#97. Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled ... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins.

George W. Bush

#98. To win a war, we must kill our enemies.

Ernest Hemingway,

#99. Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time.

Thea Harrison

#100. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

Thomas Jefferson

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