Enemies Quotes

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made"

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless"

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends"

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies"

"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character"

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"

"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot"

"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies"

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it"

"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"

"Enemies are so stimulating"

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends"

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it"

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies"

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies"

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"

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

"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations"

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends"

"Even paranoids have real enemies"

"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies"

"Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back"

"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other"

"The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number"

"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves"

"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have"

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding"

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs"

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas"

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"

"Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself"

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content"

"It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose"

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies"

"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping"