Enemies Quotes

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader"

"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also"

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

"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence"

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

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway"

"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other"

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies"

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"

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

"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads"

"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them"

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility"

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies"

"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons"

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success"

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

"Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!"

"Let my enemies devour each other"

"Dream stompers are your worst enemies"

"Germany must be strong and united if it is to survive in the face of its enemies"

"The English are my enemies, my deadly enemies. They will do everything in their power to destroy me and my country"

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task"

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling"

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee"

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

"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"

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult"

"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"

"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations"

"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends"

"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them"

"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers"

"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace"

"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking"

"Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat"

"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress"

"The last of our enemies is laid low"

"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people"