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Quotes About Enemies

There are "no permanent enemies, no permanent allies, only permanent interests,"23 Saul Alinsky often said, paraphrasing the British prime minister Lord Palmerston.
~ Chris Hedges
As long as I am alive, there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them.
~ Osama bin Laden
Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.
~ Jeff Giles
The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
All opponents are not necessarily enemies. But both enemies and opponents carry certain characteristics in common. Both perceive their opposite as an obstacle, or an opportunity, or a threat. Sometimes the threat is personal; other times it is a perceived violation of standards or accepted norms of society. In
~ Timothy Zahn
Quiet! Fool!! So what if he's hurt? This is a battle. Inequality is to be expected…a monster born of inequality and intolerance. 'I can't stand that guy.' 'I think I can beat him.' 'I'll never forgive him.' We make enemies for all kinds of reasons. And the moment we do…even breathing becomes part of the struggle.
~ Tite Kubo
we are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can't they, now?
~ Tom Clancy
The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.
~ Tom Reiss
Biblical love is a choice to do good for another person regardless of what we feel. It is a decision to compassionately and righteously pursue the betterment of another person. This is why you can even love your enemies according to Christ's command.
~ Tony Evans
There were no disagreements in Stalin's universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin's virtues and identify his enemies' crimes. They also illuminate the extent of Stalin's paranoia and the culture of suspicion that surrounded him.
~ Tony Judt
Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget my dream
~ Kentaro Miura
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
The best enemies are fabricated enemies for two reasons: one, we have nothing to worry about, and two, the populace falls in line.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Hollywood and the music industry did everything they could to stop the copying. To no avail. They succeeded only in making enemies of their customers.) Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.
~ Kevin Kelly
As ideas of American identity continue to evolve, so America First must continually produce new enemies against which to define its own supposed pure vision of America.
~ Kevin M. Kruse
Enemies of the all powerful God, guess what folks? The universe doesn't know or care. If you appreciate the miracle of creation is randomness and that's what makes creation a miracle-congratulations. You've made it into the God club.
~ Kilburn Hall
University Life" bureaucrats are teaching the next generation of young Americans that the First Amendment is not a guarantee of constitutional rights; it is a potential weapon that can be wielded against one's enemies in the social justice wars.
~ Kim R. Holmes
Some informants spied on their neighbors because they actually believed the propaganda… Some denounced their enemies in order to settle personal grudges. Some were driven by their own fears to attempt to deflect attention away from themselves…Some were motivated by the sense of power turning in their neighbors gave them.
~ Kort E. Patterson
Como en la distopía orwelliana, los enemigos de antes eran los compañeros de ahora, y el PCM volvería a subirse al tren de la Revolución mexicana conducido por el general Lázaro Cárdenas.
~ Carlos Illades
But I must forgive him. Why? Because we are told to love our enemies. Besides, until I forgive him, (said Mordecai, tapping his black-robed stomach), I carry him here, within me. And that is a terrible thing.
~ Caroline Lawrence
It might be pleasant just to give up, live in the present, enjoying existential personal experiences, living like lotus-eaters from our amazing productive system, without personal responsibility, self-discipline, or thought about the future. But this is impossible, because the productive system could itself collapse, and our external enemies would soon destroy us. Tragedy & Hope p. 1275
~ Carroll Quigley
It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
~ Cassandra Clare
The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
~ George Patton