“Doors are for those who lack enemies.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy — from lack of character.”
Markings (1964)
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Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961Related quotes
“Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.”
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) Russian military commander
Quoted in Ossipov, "Suvorov," 1945.
“It is right to learn even from an enemy.”
Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
Book IV, 428
Variant translations:
It is right to learn, even from the enemy.
Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.
It is right to be taught even by an enemy.
We can learn even from our enemies.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
“Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.”
Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
Quoted in Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures, ed. Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac (2006), p. 120
As quoted in Words of Wisdom : From the Greatest Minds of All Time (2004) by Mick Farren
Variant: If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
“Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
“Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.”
Slavoj Žižek book The Sublime Object of Ideology
161
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
The Freeholder, no. 42.
“It is so easy to be an enemy of the United States, but so difficult to be a friend.”
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001) president of South Vietnam from 1965–75
As quoted in a response to Anna Chennault in 1975
Langguth, A.J. Our Vietnam, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 page 656.