quotations about enemies
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
UMBERTO ECO
The Prague Cemetery
Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.
NEITH BOYCE
Enemies
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Little Country
If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Fear not, too much, an open enemy;
He is consistent--always at his post;
But watchful be of him who holds the key
Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
ANDREW DOWNING
"Your Enemy"
It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.
FORREST CARTER
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The best way to defeat an enemy is not to eliminate the enemy physically but rather the enemy's psychological submission.
XUEZHI GUO
The Ideal Chinese Political Leader
By a few soft words and pleasant looks enemies have been made friends, and old attachments renewed that had been annulled for years.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
SIDNEY SHELDON
The Other Side of Midnight
For its part, the coyote almost certainly didn't consider the goose to be an enemy, although the goose would likely disagree. To the coyote, the goose was dinner, neither more nor less.
DAVID P. BARASH
Beloved Enemies
I have only one real and true enemy on earth, and that is myself.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
An Evolution in Aphorisms
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Micah
If you are without an enemy in the world, you may be a lamb or an ass, but you are not a man.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Driftwood
I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Siege and Storm
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken you.
FRANK HERBERT
God Emperor of Dune
In most cases, our enemies are less focused on us than we might assume, or fear, or secretly desire.
DAVID P. BARASH
Beloved Enemies
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
DARK TRANQUILITY
"The Enemy", Damage Done
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts