Enemy Quotes: Wisdom and Insight on Adversaries and Opposition

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy"

Ovid, Poet

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it"

Ric Ocasek, Musician

"Every educated person is a future enemy"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him"

Olin Miller, Writer

"The press is the enemy"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy"

Hesiod, Poet

"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming"

Tom Felton, Actor

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander"

Ramman Kenoun

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all"

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet"

Titus Flavius Vespasian, Royalty

"We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason"

Philip Kearny, Soldier

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