“Kill them with success, and bury them with a smile.” —Keisha Keenleyside
“Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.” —Mike Murdock
“Know your enemy – and learn about his favorite sport.” —Nelson Mandela
“Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Pay close attention to people who don’t clap when you win.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
“Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.” —Ratan Tata
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” —Sun Tzu
“Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.” —Sun Tzu
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.” —George Orwell
“Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.” —Robert Greene
Best Quotes about Enemy
“Enemies are so stimulating.” —Katharine Hepburn
“Bear patiently with a rival.” —Ovid
“Our enemies are our outward consciences.” —Shakespeare
“Enemies promises were made to be broken.” —Aesop
“We can learn even from our enemies.” —Ovid
“Forgive your enemies, but first get even.” —Lester Cole
“Every educated person is a future enemy.” —Martin Bormann
“Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.” —Pierre Corneille
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” —Mario Puzo
“Enemies’ gifts are no gifts and do no good.” —Sophocles
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” —Arabic Proverb
“We need a common enemy to unite us.” —Condoleezza Rice
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” —John F. Kennedy
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.” —Antisthenes
“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.” —Paul Newman
“Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.” —Bishop William Fleetwood
“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.” —Mao Zedong
“If you had no enemies, you had no fun.” —Denis Leary
“Give the enemy an inch, he’ll take a yard.” —Monica Crowley
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” —Oscar Wilde
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” —Woodrow Wilson
“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.” —Aesop
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” —Abraham Lincoln
“An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.” —Publius Syrus
“Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults.” —Benjamin Franklin
“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.” —Emil Cioran
“One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.” —Jonathan Swift
“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” —Sally Kempton
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” —William Blake
“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.” —E. B. White
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” —Abraham Lincoln
“If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.” —Sun Tzu
“When the enemy attacks you, it means you are on the right road.” —Enver Hoxha
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” —Sun Tzu
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.” —Joseph Heller
“Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.” —Sydney J. Harris
“Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.” —Thomas Hardy
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” —Eric Hoffer
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.” —Dalai Lama
“I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.” —Roy M. Cohn
“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.” —Thomas Paine
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” —Nelson Mandela
“Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.” —Gene Fowler
“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.” —Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.” —Lord Chesterfield
Bible Quotes about Enemies
“As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.” —Bible
“And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.” —Bible
“Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.” —Bible
“Out of the mouth of babes and suckling’s hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightiest still the enemy and the avenger.” —Bible
“And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.” —Bible
“Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.” —Bible
“Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) / That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.” —Bible
“He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.” —Bible
Sun Tzu Quotes about Enemy
“Do not press an enemy at bay.” —Tzu
“Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.” —Tzu
“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” —Tzu
“A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.” —Tzu
“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” —Tzu
“If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.” —Tzu
“If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.” —Tzu
“For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.” —Tzu
“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.” —Tzu
Quotes and Sayings about Enemies
“Sudden friendship, sure repentance.” —Proverb
“Enemies are so stimulating.” —Hepburn
“One enemy is too much.” —Herbert
“Even a paranoid can have enemies.” —Kissinger
“Scratch a lover, find a foe.” —Parker
“Enemies promises were made to be broken.” —Aesop
“Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.” —Proverb
“Become great and vanquish all the enemies.” —Veda
“A person is his own worst enemy.” —Unknown
“False friends are worse than bitter enemies.” —Proverb
“Even a paranoid has some real enemies.” —Kissinger
“Keep your enemies in front of you.” —Matthews
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” —Kennedy
“No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.” —Goethe
“Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.” —Proverb
“Speak well of your enemies… you made them.” —Unknown
“Our views differ, but we are not enemies.” —Milinkevich
“Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.” —Herbert
“The person who builds a character makes foes.” —Young
“Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.” —Blake
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.” —Franklin
“He who has three enemies must agree with two.” —Proverb
“Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within.” —Sayings
“For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.” —Sterne
“Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.” —Carrel
“Enemies’ gifts are no gifts and do no good.” —Sophocles
“Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.” —Proverbs
“It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.” —Syrus
“There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.” —Proverb
“A man’s greatness can be measured by his enemies.” —Piatt
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” —Einstein
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” —Bonaparte
“If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.” —Franklin
“For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.” —Sterne
“How many enemies can you make in that much time?” —Observer
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” —Patton
“When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.” —Callas
“It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.” —Syrus
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.” —Bowen
“If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.” —Unknown
“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” —Fallows
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” —Wilde Irish Dramatist
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” —Wilde
“He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.” —Proverbs
“A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.” —Proverb
“Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.” —Proverbs
“One should forgive one’s enemies, but not before they are hanged.” —Heine
“The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.” —Morley
“I make sure everybody die, when we ride on your enemies.” —Shakur
“Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.” —Franklin
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” —Proverb
“There is another Motley Cure band out of Connecticut. We’re arch enemies.” —Miller
“The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.” —Proverbs
“It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.” —Merrick
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.” —Hazlitt
“Pick your enemies carefully or you’ll never make it in Los Angeles.” —Barrett
“We’ve learned from it. You get to know where your enemies are.” —Klinsmann
“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” —Kempton
“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.” —Einstein
“I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.” —Franklin
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.” —Proverbs
“How joyful the Israelis are these days, the only winners are our enemies.” —Qorei
“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” —Kempton
“We just have to start doing things right. Essentially, we’re our worst enemies.” —Smith
“Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.” —Proverb
“We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.” —Heine
“The nearest I can make it out, “Love your Enemies” means, “Hate your Friends.” —Franklin
“I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.” —Maxwell
“He is my buddy. I would hate to see what his enemies look like.” —Jobs
“When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.” —Bierce
“Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.” —Sr.
“There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.” —Euripides
“We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.” —Disraeli
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” —King
“They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.” —Lesage
“One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.” —Hitopadesa
“As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.” —Nixon
“Kinder the enemy who must malign us than the smug friend who will define us.” —Wickham
“We’re fighting the two biggest enemies of the IPO market right now, uncertainty and volatility.” —Menlow
“The (real) enemies are those occupiers who have set themselves up in Iraq, particularly Britain.” —Elham
“Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.” —Harris
“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.” —Gibran
“Kinder the enemy who must malign us than the smug friend who will define us.” —Wickham
“Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.” —Rochefoucauld
“[President Robert Mugabe’s government has attacked the suspense thriller] The Interpreter, Zimbabwe’s enemies did not rest.” —Kidman
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.” —Heller
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.” —Goethe
“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” —Kissinger
“The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies.” —Schiller
“The main doctrine of a fanatic’s creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.” —White
“Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all enemies exposed and denounced.”—Proverb
“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.” —Lerner
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” —Calcutta
“The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.” —Friedman
“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.” —Trotsky
“And we looked out to see your enemies and we see that you’re looking at us instead.” —Williams
“When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.” —Tse-Tung
“The leader who cares for his subject cannot be vanquished even if all his enemies become united.” —Veda
“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.” —Proverbs
“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.” —Proverbs
“I thank you for defying him. You have gone against the grain of some of Zimbabwe’s enemies.” —Mugabe
“I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won’t.” —McCain
“We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.”—James
“He’s a guy who wouldn’t have any enemies like that, not at this point in his life.” —Brown
“Member States are their own worst enemies once they leave Brussels and return to their national capitals.” —Watson
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” —Hoffer
“Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.” —Rogers
“Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.” —Cowper
“I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies.” —Abir
“We also shift our tactics, we also shift our intelligence and our operational forces to combat the enemies.” —Yonts
“The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.” —Nicolson
“He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy’s life.” —Nietzsche
“The enemies of Iraq [who] are carrying out aggressive acts to get Iraq back to the old days.” —Allawi
“And Allah best knows your enemies; and Allah suffices as a Guardian, and Allah suffices as a Helper.” —Quran
“Enshrine the Feet of the Guru within your heart; your pains, enemies and bad luck shall be destroyed.” —Veda
“To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare forever; and thus will France be saved.” —Danton
“I love to love those who love to hate me and I laugh at the laughter directed against me.” —Veness
“People wish their enemies dead, but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!” —Montagu
“The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.” —Danton
“We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.” —Hunter
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.” —Bates
“Deep within, she is attuned to His Love, intoxicated with delight, her enemies and sufferings are all taken away.” —Nanak
“This is an escalation that we have been expecting, the government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.” —Allawi
“Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience? Not our friends. Our enemies give us the most crucial chances to grow.” —Gyatso
“If people can’t let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.” —Clinton
“We can tolerate our past enemies but can never forget them, therefore we must have a correct understanding of history.” —Chan
“In today’s rapidly changing and volatile world, the United States must stay at least one step ahead of our enemies.” —Pryor
“You are entangled in association with your enemies, and the enjoyment of pleasures; your soul is burning up with them.” —Sahib
“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.” —Tse-Tung
“If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, ‘You are wrong.’ This method works every time.”
“An enthusiastic person is brave and hence he always remains unharmed by his enemies as they are scared of him.” —Veda
“It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.” —Bulwer-Lytton
“Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.” —Fowler
“It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.” —Bulwer-Lytton
“When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.” —Jonson
“I don’t sense he’s made any enemies. By and large, he’s well-liked. People are glad that the problems are getting fixed.” —Ploss
“Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies, and easily discount / dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.” —Kurzweil
“Agitated in their minds, their sight, their hearts, the enemies shall run, frightened with terror, when our oblation has been offered!” —Veda
“It is important that we have people with integrity there. And I think even my enemies credit me with having integrity.” —Fowler
“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.” —Rochefoucauld
“I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.” —Luce
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.” —Emerson
“It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.” —Shearer
“Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.” —Goldsmith
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.” —Cicero
“I’m just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I’m just the guy who makes happy.” —Checker
“It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.” —Turner
“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.” —Cicero
“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.” —Francis
“The whirring of the bowstring and the drums shall shout at the directions where the conquered armies of the enemies go in successive ranks!” —Veda
“Conquer your enemies and enjoy a prosperous kingdom. All these [warriors] have already been destroyed by me. You are only an instrument, O Arjuna.” —Gita
“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.” —King
“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.” —Longfellow
“The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.” —Aesop
“His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.” —Smith
“Our enemies are preparing to strike us now, and the longer we wait to move decisively, the greater the advantages and opportunities they have to harm us.” —Fetchet
“Here is a radical and reforming commissioner making major changes to the police who has many enemies in there, who really don’t want to see those changes.” —Livingstone
“The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.” —Coffin
“No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.” —Hitopadesa
“The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.” —Kempis
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.” —Francis
“That is the reward of the enemies of Allah– the fire; for them therein shall be the house of long abiding; a reward for their denying our communications.” —Quran
“To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies. He made far too many enemies.” —Pinker
“They (the enemies) shall float down like a boat cut loose from its moorings! There is no returning again for those who have been struck by our missiles.” —Veda
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” —Twain
“Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.” —Baba
“I’m sure it would be fun annihilating all my enemies too. I’m not really drawn to that, but as a character I can see it being a lot of fun.” —Brody
“It seems that this young man was interested in hurting people, possibly the U.S. or enemies of Islam, but I have not seen any evidence that he actually did anything.” —Clabaugh
“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.” —Flaubert
“If they find you, they will be your enemies, and will stretch forth towards you their hands and their tongues with evil, and they ardently desire that you may disbelieve.” —Quran
“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, and soften to us our enemies.” —Stevenson
“You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.” —Nietzsche
“It may be that Allah will bring about friendship between you and those whom you hold to be your enemies among them; and Allah is Powerful; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” —Quran
“In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.” —Swetchine
“An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.” —Emerson
“Our two parties were enemies in the past. Everyone knows this history. But history is in the past. We can’t change it. But the future is in our hands and offers many opportunities.” —Chan
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.” —West
“One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.” —Unknown
“When it pleases you, we wield the sword, and cut off the heads of our enemies. When it pleases you, we go out to foreign lands; hearing news of home, we come back again.” —Sahib
“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.” —Wilson
“Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.” —”Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” —Hubbard
“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but – more frequently than not – struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.” —Luther
“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” —Khan
“I think it’s probably to do with the fact that the industry itself has some enemies, kind of neo-prohibitionists. There’s always someone trying to basically put us out of business or increase our excise taxes or whatever.” —Hancock
“If you vote for this amendment, you will be seen to have voted for maximizing the chances of the enemies of reform to prevail against the wishes of the Senate and the will of the American people.” —Feingold
“If that’s what he wanted, I’d give it to him in spades. I wasn’t going to write about it. I got enough enemies, right? There’s enough people who don’t like me. I’m not going to go into this.” —Fonda
“In this fight I have the most intolerant and vindictive enemies I have ever met and I have the largest majority on my side I have ever had and I am discussing the greatest issue I have ever discussed.” —Bryan
“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.” —Dumas
“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” —Hanh
“I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.” —Proverb
“He’s not afraid to not conform . . . and that can upset people, so it’s pretty correct [that there’s two clear schools of thought on Connolly]. He would have his enemies, but he’d have a lot of supporters as well.” —Wilson
“Enemies think that by … threatening us, launching psychological warfare or … imposing embargoes can dissuade our nation to obtain nuclear technology.” —”I think you’re battling common enemies that a lot of other communities are. It’s occurring in a lot of Midwest communities.” —Warren
“The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.” —Adams
“It’s a professional sport. We play here together, but for two weeks we’re going to be enemies. We’re going to compete for a medal in the Olympics. That’s going to be a little weird, but obviously, we’ve done it before. We’re used to it.” —Rucinsky
“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.” —Cicero
“Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.” —Fisher
“Anyone who makes enemies with his own nation and compatriots is bound to eat his own bitter fruit. Anyone who disregards the people’s well-being, and behaves in a perverse manner in the relations between Taiwan and the mainland eventually will hurt the interests of the Taiwan compatriots.” —Weiyi
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” —King
“The enemies of the state will always test a new threshold of destabilization but they will never dent the rock steady foundations of our constitutional democracy. We leave to our law enforcers and the criminal justice system the task of meeting the residual threats posed by the remnants of the failed conspiracy.” —Bunye
“He’s made some enemies in this clubhouse, for good or for bad. What I’ve learned in the four years is I don’t take anything personally anymore. I respect the attention I get, and understand the scrutiny I’m under. I accept it and I’ll go with it and take that responsibility and go out and pitch this year.” —Prior
“So don’t let money tell you who you are. Don’t let power tell you who your are. Don’t let enemies and — for God’s sake — don’t let your sins tell you who you are. Don’t prove yourself. That’s taken care of. All we have to do is express ourselves. It’s difficult, but we’re a lot more alive in pain than in complacency.” —Coffin
“Unlike some chiefs of staff, he’s made few enemies because he’s such a nice guy. John Sununu (chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush) couldn’t let anyone see the president unless he was in the room. Andy will bring everybody into the room to air their thoughts to the president. He doesn’t keep people out for the sake of keeping people out.” —Fleischer
“It was a remarkably quick turn around with our relationships with Japan. Within two to three years we were rebuilding landing strips at airports that we had bombed a few months before. We forged what has been an enduring alliance with Japan. We went from them going from being one of our bitterest enemies to them being our ally. It was interesting how that was accomplished in almost no time at all.” —Wilson
“There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer’s day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but – whack – his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ”YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.” —Aesop
“If a square peg doesnt fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two people, the question “whose fault is it?” is the friend of argumentation and the destroyer of growth-oriented communication. Assigning blame involves listening to criticize and responding to defend, speaking to lower the other person rather than speaking to build each up. Relational progress is impossible as long as blame is the focus because blame and progress are enemies. In our litigation-hungry society we must take care that focusing on fault – which is proper for the courtroom – doesnt carry over into interpersonal relationships. The heart of loving communication is listening to understand.” —Bryant