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Quotes About Enemies

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
~ Thiruvalluvar
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
~ Robert Greene
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
~ Dalai Lama
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
~ Laurence Sterne
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Besides satisfying his carnal appetites," Bob replied, "Ziggy polished his skills as a scam artist, hence his many enemies. Don't act surprised. Vampires aren't known for their moral scruples.
~ Unknown
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
~ Mario Puzo
The Jacobin leaders were beset on many sides by enemies, both open and covert. But in the end the most dangerous and unforgiving enemies they faced were themselves. In choosing terror, they chose a path that led to self-destruction.
~ Unknown
You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.
~ Mark Frost
Each of us—soldiers in the United States Army—took a solemn oath to defend this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And defend it we did—the Cold War is over, the Evil Empire is no more, Communism is defeated.
~ Unknown
Trumpism is, at heart, not a philosophy but an enemies list.
~ Mark Leibovich
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
~ Robert Conquest
Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.
~ Unknown
We are servants of Ma'at—order and justice. We don't kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.
~ Rick Riordan
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
~ Unknown
Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
~ Voltaire
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
~ Angela Carter
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
~ Daisy Bates
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.
~ Russian proverb
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
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let all Your enemies perish, my Lord! But let those who love you! Be like the sun. When it comes out in its full Glory!
~ Unknown
In my lands night is where people to evil to enemies they call friends in the day. It's when sihrs and jinns come play, and people scheme and plot. Children grow to fear it because they think there be monsters . They build a whole thing about it, about night and dark and even the colour black, which is not even a colour here. Not here. Here evil has no qualm with striking at noon. But it leaves night beautiful in look and cool of feel.
~ Marlon James