Enemy Quotes: Wisdom and Insight on Adversaries and Opposition (Page 2)

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

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

Orson Welles, Actor

"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity"

Saadi, Poet

"Flee an enemy who knows your weakness"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Every educated person is a future enemy"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"The biggest enemy of creativity is self-doubt"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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

Ramman Kenoun

"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

"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

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

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

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"The press is the enemy"

Richard M. Nixon, President

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view"

George Savile, Politician

"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy"

Socrates, Philosopher

"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

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

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will"

George Washington, President

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age"

Orson Welles, Actor

"A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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

"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy"

William Temple

"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"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

"You have learned a great deal — first of all: how to kill the enemy"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy"

Mao Zedong, Leader

"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

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