ENEMIES QUOTES VI

quotations about enemies

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Your enemy brought out your dormant primal instincts, he lit up the primitive circuits of your brain.

E. L. DOCTOROW

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

ARISTOPHANES

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There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

DANIEL ABRAHAM

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Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

STAN LEE

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Enemies make us watchful of ourselves and induce self-examination; for we must argue thus: our foe hates us with reason or without reason; if without reason, then he not really hates us, but some other sort of person for whom he mistakes us; but if with reason, then it is plain we should improve, and remove the reason.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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An enemy is like a darkroom designed to develop you as a portrait for the next season of your life.

J. ELWOOD GATLIN, SR.

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We must give even an enemy what credit he deserves. If thus we do, then whether we blame or excuse, it will be clear that we are looking at the wrong, not blinded by hatred of the person. This will gain credit for what we say. To this kind of high and self-contained justice, enemies may help us more directly than friends, perhaps, because it is so easy to commend the friend for love's sake, but a harder and higher virtue to excuse the enemy for justice's sake.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

FRANK HERBERT

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Yet in one way enemies give us hope of good traits in ourselves; for since there will be enmity, those will incur it most who have strong points of character, which as much bring them against some men as close to others. So that we say in general, No enemies, no friends.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Mortal enemies are like beautiful kitchens: Some households have them, and when they belong to famous people, we're immediately more interested in them. Which makes public feuds between mortal enemies akin to fancy custom appliances and gleaming copper pots as far as the eye can see.

ALEX ABAD-SANTOS

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Only rarely are these enemies of the easy-to-recognize, mustache-twirling variety. In some cases, of course, specific villains can readily be identified, but most of the time our enemies are subtle and diffuse, prone to transformation, sometimes even difficult to name. But they exist nonetheless, and more often than we care to admit, we feel their absence as strongly as their presence.

DAVID P. BARASH

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

SALMAN RUSHDIE

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Love your enemies but keep your gun oiled.

KEN ALSTAD

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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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Your enemy is any power, spirit, force and personality, that does not want you to fulfil your destiny.

D. K. OLUKOYA

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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

ALAN BRADLEY

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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

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