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Quotes About Enemies

Having many enemies means having no peace.
~ Unknown
Fundamental movements are generally preoccupied with criticism, and with a desire for revenge and justice, a justice which is not tempered by mercy. ... Criticism, even when justified, can attract so many enemies that any spiritual possibilities one may have will be jeopardised because, to put it in its mildest form, having many enemies means having no peace.
~ Unknown
It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
~ Desmond Tutu
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It was not Monsieur Arouet, but a colleague of his—a lady novelist—who remarked to me once that writing novels was a cannibal's art, in which one often mixed small portions of one's friends and one's enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.
~ Diana Gabaldon
writing novels was a cannibal's art, in which one often mixed small portions of one's friends and one's enemies together, seasoned them with imagination, and allowed the whole to stew together into a savory concoction.
~ Diana Gabaldon
means. To be what I am doesna mean only that I'll spill my own blood when I must. It means I must sacrifice other men to the ends of my own cause—not only those I kill as enemies, but
~ Diana Gabaldon
I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.
~ Henry IV
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
~ Frank Dane
I guess I like Piccolo the most after all. Out of all the enemies, Piccolo Daimao is the one I like most, and even after that, I like Piccolo the most.
~ Akira Toriyama
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
~ Cecil Beaton
Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
~ Delmore Schwartz
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
~ Salman Rushdie
My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.
~ George Foreman
If you want to look right now under Obama who our enemies are, just look at who he is nice to.
~ Ron DeSantis
I don't worry about making enemies with what I do. This is all just business to me.
~ Pete Dunne
In the industry we somehow made ourselves a lot of enemies.
~ Rob Pilatus
You know I never hate anyone in my life. I don't think I have many enemies but I hate Samir Khan because you can't treat people like he has done.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
Indeed, valour and honour alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.
~ Inazo Nitobe
People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free.
~ J. G. Ballard
At that point the enemies saw clear. You may accept the lofty claims of Jesus. You may take Him as very God. Or else you must reject Him as a miserable, deluded enthusiast. There is really no middle ground. Jesus refuses to be pressed into the mould of a mere religious teacher.
~ J. Gresham Machen
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
~ J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
~ J. K. Rowling
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
~ Unknown