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Quotes About Enemies

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
~ Douglas Brinkley
This is what I feared for Michael. That his generation, so strong, so well made, so bright and aware beyond its years, would compare itself to us in envy, envy of the clarity of our challenges and the brutish obviousness of our enemies.
~ Steven Pressfield
It is far, far better to earn the loyalty of the people you are forced to trust. I find that slaves make unreliable servants. Many of my enemies keep their retainers in bondage - and that, Thompson, is a very useful thing.
~ Stewart Wieck
Sometimes a friend is a person who shares your enemies.
~ Stuart Woods
I pee in the toilets of my enemies, so that when they flush my pee comes out
~ Sun Tzu
God loves us all. He does not love us more than he loves our enemies.
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends.
~ Susan Wiggs
When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent...
~ Joseph Stalin
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
~ Joseph Stalin
The President of the United States is addressed by nickname (his or his enemies') before the election and "Mr. President" after taking office. Everybody else in Washington is styled "The Honorable" to make up for what everybody outside of Washington calls them.
~ Judith Martin
Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies and four hundred and eighty-three rioters. It is told by an ignorant and prejudiced author - me.
~ Julia Golding
You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves
~ F. Sionil Jose
Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves. And never, never appear that you are virtuous and without sin. It it is the virtuous who have many enemies because for they shame the many without virtue.
~ F. Sionil Jose
Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: "Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqw?. Quran
~ Fazlur Rahman
Otro corresponsal le preguntó [a Perón] qué pensaba hacer para regresar al poder en la Argentina. El Generla le sonrió y le respondió: "Nada. Todo lo harán mis enemigos".
~ Felipe Pigna
El nacionalismo es uno de los grandes enemigos de los hombres libres, el otro es el socialismo.
~ Fernando Díaz Villanueva
Man's only enemies are within himself.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Those who scream incoherent challenges at unseen enemies perhaps were too gentle to slash out and destroy their real and intimate foes.
~ Frances Farmer
One little superstition of mine I hope you will indulge. I never meet with perfect strangers in desolate bastle houses or alarmingly named alleyways at twilight. This trifling quirk I developed shortly after acquiring a large number of enemies.
~ Frances Hardinge
God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
~ Billy Graham
The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven.
~ Billy Graham
Though [Jesus'] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.
~ Billy Graham
We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, "An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.
~ Billy Graham