Top 54 Quotes About Making Enemies
#1. Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.
Abhijit Naskar
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.
George Hammond
#5. He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
William Hazlitt
#6. Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
Grace Lee Boggs
#7. You cannot make friends of your enemies by making enemies of your friends.
Morton Blackwell
#8. There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
Edward Abbey
#9. Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
Voltaire
#10. All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.
Jonathan L. Howard
#11. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Voltaire
#12. In addition to grand estate, Coucy clearly possessed a personal power of attraction and a faculty for not making enemies.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#13. Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole, girlfriends they fucked, and sons they killed.
Kameron Hurley
#14. He emphasized murderous as if clarifying that he'd certainly believed me capable of making enemies, just not to that degree. I could have taken offense at that, but in Gabriel's world, if you aren't making the occasional enemy, you aren't trying hard enough.
Kelley Armstrong
#15. I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
Christopher Hitchens
#16. I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies.
Dasha Zhukova
#17. I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew,
Nathaniel Philbrick
#18. Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.
Bear Bryant
#19. Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
Larry Wall
#20. The instinctual shortcut that we take when we have "too much information" is to engage with it selectively, picking out the parts we like and ignoring the remainder, making allies with those who have made the same choices and enemies of the rest.
Nate Silver
#21. If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.
John Wesley
#24. No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
#25. The most visible form of Jesus's not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one's enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at their hands. Peter mentions this cruciform enemy-love no fewer than ten times in five chapters, making it the artery of the letter.
Preston Sprinkle
#26. Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter.
Liane Moriarty
#27. Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.
Carter Heyward
#28. Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.
C.J. Cherryh
#29. I believe that we [Americans] are making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists at this point, and I think it's time that we stepped back from this aggressive assertion that we can just go to any country and conduct lethal operations.
Jeremy Scahill
#30. When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies ... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent ...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#31. He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster
Miranda Liasson
#32. Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#33. The only peace you make is with your enemies. That is why they call it 'making peace'.
George R R Martin
#34. We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
George R R Martin
#35. Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.
Plato
#36. Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
#37. My incentive? Making a peaceful spirit second nature. And that is so worth the effort.
Carlos Wallace
#38. Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
#39. I still have people from my past who treat me wrong, i thank them for making me strong.
Bharath Mamidoju
#40. When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings who face the same two choices that their ancestors did for centuries before them: to destroy each other or to prosper together.
Thomas Huynh
#41. Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.
C.S. Lewis
#42. This is no time to be making new enemies.
Voltaire
#43. Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete - that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But
Herman Melville
#44. I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
Viggo Mortensen
#45. One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies
Imi Lichtenfeld
#46. Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
John W. Vessey Jr.
#47. You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
Joe Abercrombie
#48. Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one?
Anne E.G. Nydam
#49. Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.
Tamora Pierce
#51. An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
#52. (She) is the kind of person who thinks throwing lemons at enemies is better than making lemonade.
Lizzy Ford
#53. Being tyrannized by Levana had a way of making allies of enemies.
Marissa Meyer
#54. he had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it.
Grace Crandall
