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Quotes About Enemies

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.
~ John Ingalls
In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make.
~ Theo E. Colborn
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
~ William Wrigley
But people can take your truth and stretch it, twist it, tear it apart, turn it inside out and when you get it back, you are making enemies and when you try and straighten it out, you talk a whole lot more and give the people new ammunition to shoot back at you and then you have made more enemies!
~ J. California Cooper
Trez went over and lifted the lid. After a deep inhale, he glanced over with a smile. "My brother is a helluva cook." Sure was, John thought. Although with Shadows you always had to wonder what the protein was. Rumor had it they liked to eat their enemies. The
~ J.R. Ward
Trump's enemies pretend to care about his past with women or about 'children.' But really, they hate good men, good women, unborn babies, and children - they actively target, brainwash, and corrupt innocent children, teaching them that wrong is right and right is wrong.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
~ Nhat Hanh
It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
~ Katherine Paterson
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.
~ Learned Hand
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
~ Mary Renault
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
~ Zainab Salbi
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
~ James Madison
War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.
~ Debasish Mridha
As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
~ Dmitry Glukhovsky
Enemies, ' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
~ Terry Goodkind, Debt of Bones
The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.
~ James Mattis
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
~ Heinrich Heine
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
~ Dalai Lama
In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. (In Search of God and
~ Swami Vivekananda
Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]
~ Sylvia Boorstein