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Quotes About Enemies

Always love your enemies. It will destroy them forever.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Had Colonel Carrington visited the scene of the Sand Creek Massacre, which occurred only two years before the Fetterman Massacre, he would have seen the same mutilations—committed upon Indians by Colonel Chivington's soldiers. The Indians who ambushed Fetterman were only imitating their enemies, a practice which in warfare, as in civilian life, is said to be the sincerest form of flattery.
~ Dee Brown
Even paranoids have real enemies.
~ Delmore Schwartz
Heiner Müller zeroed in on this contradiction by noting ascerbically that the main economic activity of the Eastern regimes was always the production of state enemies (in other words, the system produced vast numbers of literate, well-educated workers who could not fail to notice the yawning gap between the ideal of a people's democracy and the despotism of the one-party state).
~ Dennis Redmond
Be magnanimous, and forgive your enemies, but never forget their actions.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Be thankful to your enemies, because they're always the first ones to find your faults that you never knew about. Also wish them a long life, so that they'll see you succeed in life....there is nothing in this world that would annoy them more.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Never justify your actions, because your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe it.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Nunca justificar sus acciones, porque tus amigos no lo necesitan, y tus enemigos no lo creerán.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.
~ Derek Landy
I have seen the faces of our enemies! I have looked into the eyes of our foes! Do you know what I have seen? [...] Faces and eyes, gentlemen. Faces and eyes.
~ Derek Landy
Warlocks are dark sorcerers on a dark path. They eat the souls of their enemies to absorb their strength. I haven't gone up against one of them in... a long time. I didn't think there were any left. - Skulduggery
~ Derek Landy
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.
~ Jack Ma
You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.
~ Genghis Khan
The forbearance of the Confederate Government, under the circumstances, is perhaps unexampled in history. It was carried to the extreme verge, short of a disregard of the safety of the people who had intrusted to that government the duty of their defense against their enemies. The attempt to represent us as the aggressors in the conflict which ensued is as unfounded as the complaint made by the wolf against the lamb in the familiar fable.
~ Jefferson Davis
Holding on to resentment is like taking poison and waiting for your enemies to die.
~ Jen Sincero
Didn't Adelaide see what she was doing? Didn't she understand that her brutal actions carried terrible consequences for her people? She was so vigilant, so worried about threats from her enemies. She raised armies, built warships—all to keep her people
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Maybe . . . it's easier to have enemies than not to have them. . . . If you don't hate people, you have to learn to like them. . . . And liking people? That's not easy.
~ Jennifer Finney Boylan
But it was not just that admirers had fled, she mused; her enemies were stepping out of the shadows to take their place.
~ Jennifer Lee Carrell
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I'm more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes