Enemies Quotes: Wise Words to Face Your Foes

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"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"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

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

Paul Newman, Actor

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"

John F. Kennedy, President

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

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"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"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

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

Joseph Addison, Writer

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

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

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

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

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

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes"

Antisthenes, Philosopher

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults"

Antisthenes, Philosopher

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

Sextus Propertius, Poet

"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"

Arrian, Historian

"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies"

Bob Hawke, Statesman

"America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"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"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation"

Marc Racicot, Politician

"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better"

Edward W. Howe

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

Dan Aykroyd, Comedian

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

Sophocles, Author

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies"

Sophocles, Author

"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"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself"

Lao Tzu, Author

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it"

Voltaire, Writer

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty"

Stephen King, Author

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"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"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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