Top 76 Quotes About Having Enemies
#1. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#2. That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside."
"Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.
Derek Landy
#3. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#4. 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
#5. He wasn't looking for a soulmate. That would require having a soul to share, and he'd sold his off long ago
Miranda Liasson
#6. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner
#7. The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Arthur Miller
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.
Morihei Ueshiba
#12. If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
Winston Churchill
#13. Although member countries ratified the UN's millennium goals, fighting enemies represents by far the biggest allocation of most countries' resources.
Joyce F Benenson
#14. He who learns from his enemies is as wise
as he who learns from his friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#16. The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.
Debasish Mridha
#17. 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
#19. I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
Pierce Brown
#20. 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
#21. I've heard that said about outlanders and enemies before, and I don't generally trust it. Just too bloody convenient, the quick and easy way to deal with difference. Oh, they're not like us, they're insane. It saves you having to think too much.
Richard K. Morgan
#22. We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.
Henry Beston
#23. I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.
Andrew Breitbart
#24. We need to learn ... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
Tony Judt
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.
Gerald R. Ford
#28. Assaulted as I am by ambition, covetousness, rashness and superstition, and having such enemies to life as that within me, should I start wondering about the motions of the Universe?
Michel De Montaigne
#29. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.
David Nicholls
#30. I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.
John Hawkes
#31. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.
Sun Tzu
#32. I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
Jai Courtney
#33. I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There's much more reward in having friends.
Jared Leto
#34. There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.
Christina Engela
#35. There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.
Evgeny Morozov
#36. I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
John Shelby Spong
#37. You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.
Costas Taktsis
#38. Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov's habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.
Neal Stephenson
#39. What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.
Steven Brust
#41. He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
John Owen
#42. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.
Johnny Depp
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
Santosh Kalwar
#49. The rapture will neutralize natural death; God's enemies will be begging for a way out of the world.
Felix Wantang
#50. My lord is coming, and he will have no mercy on his enemies!
Jason Tesar
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Dalai Lama
#54. My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy?
Susan Ee
#57. War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.
William T. Sherman
#58. A man's greatest joy is crushing his enemies.
Genghis Khan
#59. 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
#60. The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
Edward Gibbon
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
#67. The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Randall Terry
#68. 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
#69. Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#70. 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
#71. 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
#73. 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
#75. Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
Joan Of Arc
#76. Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
