ENEMIES QUOTES

quotations about enemies

Even God herself has enemies.

BILLIE EILISH

"all the good girls go to hell"


It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Musashi


Oh, my beautiful enemy, beautiful
I send my scorn and ridicule
You're not innocent
No, not innocent
No one's innocent

DAR WILLIAMS

"Beautiful Enemy", My Better Self


We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

AESOP

Fables


Enemies are human beings--creations of God--just as followers of Jesus are. This reality is more fundamental than their status as enemies and so is the controlling factor in how Jesus' followers are to behave toward them.

JOHN FREDERIC KILNER

Life on the Line


Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.

KOBO ABE

Secret Rendezvous


It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

DON DELILLO

Underworld


Love your enemies.

BIBLE

Matthew 5:44


Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

MARIO PUZO

The Godfather


Quite often, our enemies are our enemies because of miscommunications, misunderstandings, irrational emotional states, and illogical, ungrounded conclusions. An enemy can be an enemy for a very justifiable reason. An enemy can be a true intellectual, emotional, or physical threat. A single individual or a group of people can be a real danger to our life and the way that we live it. Despite our perceptions of the level of danger our enemies present, we must act. We must make war. We must kill our enemies with love. We must destroy our enemies by making them our friends and loved ones. And if our enemies refuse to be loved, we must continue to love them as best we can.

JOSHUA MILLER

The Heart of Love


A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you
Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you
They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friend

U2

"Cedars of Lebanon"


The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra


When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

UMBERTO ECO

Name of the Rose


Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

Hart's Hope


No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

speech, Apr. 16, 1953


The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Banister, Apr. 21, 1778


Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

STEPHEN KING

The Last Gunslinger