Quotes about enemy

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“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

“But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority”

“The enemy of science is not religion…. The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.”

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”

“But enemies can become friends.”

“Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.”

“You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"

I am one. Death is my enemy."

Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger."

Yup.”

“I grunted. “She’s not a delicate princess,” I said. “She’s a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt.” I felt my jaws clench. “And then their friends even things up.”

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”

“Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)”

“Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.”

“The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.”

“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

“Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?”

“I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out."

Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy.

Dang, I'm good.”

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

“I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.”

“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”

“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”

“Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.”

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.”

“I want to tell her revenge is a devil you don’t want to worship. In destroying your enemy you become it.”

“If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.”

“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.”

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”

“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”

“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."
-white oleander”

“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”

“Humor was the enemy of desire.”

“If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.”

“Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.”

“Only he who is without anything is without enemies.”

“Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.”

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

“You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker)
Against you, Father, I’d stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)”

“To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.”

“I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.”

“Scientists are the enemies of tradition, and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny”

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

“The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear”

“There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.”

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”

“Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.”

“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.”

“Enemies are nothing compared to traitors, after all. It's the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.”

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”

“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 — and quickly.”

“It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“These times make for strange friends and unexpected enemies.”

“He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.”

“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”

“Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies… for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.”

“Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!”

“Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance!”

“It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.”

“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”

“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.”

“The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.”

“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”

“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”

“Never offend an enemy in a small way.”

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

“I can tell we’re going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang)
Just remember one thing, world. I’m the best friend you’ll ever have or the last enemy you’ll ever make. (Thorn)”

“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”

“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

“If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

“You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.”

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.”

“Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.”

“However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.”

“And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.”

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.”

“Wait!" Conrad said. "Did someone… one of my enemies set this fire?"
Nix turned back with a grin. "Unless you'd pissed off some wirring-hungry nutrias, then I'm going with no.”

“do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“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.”

“Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.”

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

“All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron)
Why? (Talon)
Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)”

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”

“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”