Top 100 Quotes About Enemies
#1. It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.
Marilynne Robinson
#2. If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
Louis L'Amour
#4. They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.
Michael Heseltine
#5. Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.
Jim Butcher
#6. Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone's faces.
Rawi Hage
#7. I got enemies, I got a lotta enemies. Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy.
Drake
#9. The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
Anonymous
#10. Touch your enemies' heart with love. It will bloom flowers of gratitude and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
H.L. Mencken
#12. It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.
Robert Hughes
#13. Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Francis Cornford
#14. I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
Bella Abzug
#15. All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.
Eric Hoffer
#16. It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#17. When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies', we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
Ovadia Yosef
#18. Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
Jimmy Carter
#19. But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities. These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.
Liu Cixin
#20. My enemies embarrassed you. So they embarrassed me, Darrow. You told me you would win. But then you lost. And that changes everything.
Pierce Brown
#21. Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
Douglas MacArthur
#22. But after being on the run I've learned a life spent creating enemies isn't worth leading. Having allies is the best advantage in the world.
Chris Colfer
#23. I hold no mercy for my enemies because mercy is for suckers.
T.M. Goeglein
#24. If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
Cate Blanchett
#25. What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
Cormac McCarthy
#26. The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.
Samuel Johnson
#27. A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
Cornelia Funke
#28. Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#29. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.
Martin O'Malley
#30. The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
Ouida
#31. Is it just possible,' he sighed, 'that the most vigorous and obldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?
Sinclair Lewis
#32. People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Mary Wortley Montagu
#33. The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.
Charlie Chaplin
#34. To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.
Joe Abercrombie
#35. Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now
Euripides
#36. Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
Charles Kingsley
#37. Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.
William Gibson
#38. why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#39. Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
Bertrand Russell
#40. Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
Sydney J. Harris
#41. 3053Geography also gave Russia a rich choice of potential enemies.
Margaret MacMillan
#42. Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.
Paulo Coelho
#43. Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
David Foster
#44. Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.
Matthew Henry
#46. Let our enemies come. They have a reckoning waiting at the end of my blade- and my siren's vengeance to deal with. Let our enemies come, and I will kill them all. So long as you're at my side, I have something to fight for.
Laura Thalassa
#47. You are as big as your enemies and as small as your fear.
Anonymous
#48. Always Blitzkrieg your enemies.
Anonymous
#49. If our rest was here, most of God's providences must be useless. Should God lose the glory of his church's miraculous deliverances, and of the fall of his enemies, that men may have their happiness here?
Richard Baxter
#51. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.
Oscar Wilde
#52. It's easy to hate Amon Goeth. If the Germans and their allies can turn into murderers, then we, too, can become murderers. I hope that my sons will always remember that. I hope that they will always see the Palestinians as human beings, not as enemies.
Nikola Sellmair
#53. Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.
Mother Teresa
#54. There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
#55. He looked like he could pick up a fifty-pound rucksack, run across the city with it, and then beat an ungodly number of enemies to a bloody pulp with his bare hands while things exploded dramatically in the background.
Ilona Andrews
#56. You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Jeannette Walls
#57. One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.
Meek Mill
#58. In all discussions of Hell we should keep steadily before our eyes the possible damnation, not of our enemies nor our friends (since both these disturb the reason) but of ourselves.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.
Thomas Watson
#60. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Shelley Hitz
#61. We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
Ed Koch
#62. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#63. He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides
#64. We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. Don't hate your enemies, they don't even deserve it.
M.F. Moonzajer
#66. Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.
Robert Walpole
#67. The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.
John Muir
#68. We are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can't they, now?
Tom Clancy
#70. Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ...
Laurance Labadie
#71. A boy can't imagine how hard he will find it, someday, to forgive his own enemies. Or his own loved ones. He has no inkling that good men can sometimes find it impossible to forgive themselves. The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.
Ian Caldwell
#72. It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
Desmond Tutu
#73. I pledge myself to the Rose Society until the end of my days, to use my eyes to see all that happens, my tongue to woo other to our side, my ears to hear every secret, my hands to crush my enemies. I will do everything in my power to destroy all who stand in my way.
Marie Lu
#74. One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
Ken Robinson
#75. We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
Heinrich Heine
#77. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.
Jeffrey Friedland
#78. We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#79. Friends may be enemies, and enemies, friends. Lacking the ability to see into another's mind and read the motivations that lie within, no man can know for sure.
Shaun Myandee
#80. I won't forgive I won't forget. Let hell open and rain my wrath down on them all. I will not be stopped and I have no mercy left inside me. I am death and I revel in the killings of my enemies. Bring me them all until I'm drunk on their blood.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.
Tyler Perry
#83. Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
Euripides
#84. This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.
Pope Clement I
#86. So, we're not enemies anymore?" She said.
"I never said I wanted to be, believe me. When I saw you sitting in your own, eating lunch, all I wanted to do was fool around and make you smile." He shot her a shy glance.
Kathryn James
#87. Deception is parcel to ruling. I tell my enemies, my allies, and my subjects what they need to know, when I feel they need to know it. This philosophy tends to have some effects. A man cannot take it as his business to repeatedly deceive the world, without somehow deceiving himself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#88. Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
Dalai Lama
#89. Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson
#90. After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
George W. Bush
#91. When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.
It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.
In silence it finds its peace.
Raphael Zernoff
#92. Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.
George Hammond
#94. I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.
John Eaton
#95. This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me - oh, god!
John Green
#96. The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must.
David James Duncan
#97. Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
Christopher Bond
#98. We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#99. In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for another four years.
Henry Bonilla
#100. When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.
Lee Ezell
