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Quotes About Enemies

How can you say that princes have the greatest power of subduing their enemies, when they are sensible that all are their enemies, who are subject to their rule?
~ xenophon ii
To take from enemies against their will, I consider to be one of the highest gratifications; but favours from objects of affection give us most pleasure when they bestow them voluntarily.
~ xenophon iii
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
~ Yahya Jammeh
The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.
~ David McGee
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
~ David Ogilvy
You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.
~ David Peace
Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.
~ David Petersen
Had Trump's enemies deliberately created chaos in order to smear the President's name? It certainly seemed that way. As
~ David Sedgwick
Acquire knowledge. It guideth us to happiness; it sustaineth us in misery; it is an ornament amongst friends, and an armour against enemies.
~ David Shenk
Moscone and Milk were the dynamic duo of San Francisco's progressive revolution. They never forgot what they were elected to do: to fight for the burdened and afflicted, for those whose voices were never heard in the halls of power. They fought for the rights of workers, minorities, gays, and renters. And they made the same enemies: the chamber of commerce, developers, realtors, the SFPD.
~ David Talbot
a bad bitch couldn't be judged by the amount of friends and followers she had; but by the level and the magnitude of her enemies.
~ David Weaver
No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
~ Dean Acheson
Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might. -Oromis
~ Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
~ Aldous Huxley
Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
~ Bhartrhari
Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
~ Joseph Stalin
Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
~ Jean Cocteau
The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great conflicts arise which decide ways of life, modes of thought, and the meaning of history.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
~ Jean Rostand
The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.
~ Jean Webster
Demokratien pflegen ihre Feinde, sie liquidieren ihre Gegner.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin