L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles, "Nos amis, nos ennemis" [Our friends, our enemies]. Expression used by the French during the truce after the capture of Sebastopol, referring to the Russians. Recorded in the London Times of that date. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 221.
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations http://archive.org/details/dictionaryquota02harbgoog (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 320
“Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.”
Bernard Kerik (1955) American police chief
Newsday, October 20, 2003
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”
Rafik Schami (1946) German writer
Source: The Dark Side of Love
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
谁是我们的敌人？谁是我们的朋友？这个问题是革命的首要问题. <br class="br">Shéi shì wǒmen de dírén? Shéi shì wǒmen de péngyǒu? Zhège wèntí shì gémìng de shǒuyào wèntí. <br class="br"> Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society (March 1926), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 1. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Yasir Qadhi (1975) Pakistani-American preacher and imam
“The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends”
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925) Persian polymath, physician, alchemist and chemist, philosopher
Islamic Science, the Scholar and Ethics http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=570, Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation. <br class="br">Context: The doctor's aim is to do good, even to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my profession forbids us to do harm to our kindred, as it is instituted for the benefit and welfare of the human race, and God imposed on physicians the oath not to compose mortiferous remedies.
“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
