Enemy Quotes: Wisdom and Insight on Adversaries and Opposition

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

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

Ronald Reagan, President

"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

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith"

Abraham Kuyper, Theologian

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy"

Ovid, Poet

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Mao Tse-Tung, 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

"History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all"

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Statesman

"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

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"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

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself"

Thomas Paine, Writer

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

Olin Miller, Writer

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

Jonathan Swift, Writer

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"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

"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

"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

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

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

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

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Flee an enemy who knows your weakness"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

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

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"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

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