Quotes with enemy

  • Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
  • Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
  • One enemy is too much.
  • Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
  • Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  • There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.
  • Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
  • I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
  • Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
  • I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Adolf Hitler Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • John Cowper Powys Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
    The meaning of culture
    John Cowper Powys
    British writer, philosopher and poet (1872 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John F. Kennedy Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Sun Tzu O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Saul Alinsky Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Martin Luther Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Joseph Addison Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Voltaire The best is the enemy of the good.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Sun Tzu The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Sun Tzu Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Plato They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Joseph Addison True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Walt Kelly We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
    Walt Kelly
     
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