Enemy Quotes: Wisdom and Insight on Adversaries and Opposition (Page 3)

"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

"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"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

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

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

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

Hesiod, Poet

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet"

Titus Flavius Vespasian, Royalty

"Privilege is the greatest enemy of right"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate"

Edward Albert, Actor

"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love"

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Theologian

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

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us"

Oswald Chambers, Theologian

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

August Strindberg, Dramatist

"One never really knows who one's enemy is"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"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

"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath"

Breyten Breytenbach, Writer

"Politics is the enemy of the imagination"

Ian Mcewan, Author

"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down"

David McNally, Director

"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

"Its best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Better is the enemy of good"

Voltaire, Writer

"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Reason is the enemy of faith"

Martin Luther, Professor

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same"

Thomas Paine, Writer

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