ENEMIES QUOTES VI

quotations about enemies

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There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

DANIEL ABRAHAM

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Love your enemies but keep your gun oiled.

KEN ALSTAD

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Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

STAN LEE

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

ORSON SCOTT CARD

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An enemy is like a darkroom designed to develop you as a portrait for the next season of your life.

J. ELWOOD GATLIN, SR.

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We have two lessons to teach an enemy who despises us--to value himself less highly, and us more worthily.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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It is noteworthy that in Japanese pop culture, enemies are not always villains. It is acknowledged that an enemy is simply the person fighting for the other side of the conflict and that if the story were told from his point of view, he would be the hero of the tale.

ROBIN E. BRENNER

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. CHESTERTON

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I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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We must give even an enemy what credit he deserves. If thus we do, then whether we blame or excuse, it will be clear that we are looking at the wrong, not blinded by hatred of the person. This will gain credit for what we say. To this kind of high and self-contained justice, enemies may help us more directly than friends, perhaps, because it is so easy to commend the friend for love's sake, but a harder and higher virtue to excuse the enemy for justice's sake.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Your enemy is any power, spirit, force and personality, that does not want you to fulfil your destiny.

D. K. OLUKOYA

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We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

FRANK HERBERT

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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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Friends may come and go
but enemies accumulate.

JAYNE ANN KRENTZ

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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

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Only rarely are these enemies of the easy-to-recognize, mustache-twirling variety. In some cases, of course, specific villains can readily be identified, but most of the time our enemies are subtle and diffuse, prone to transformation, sometimes even difficult to name. But they exist nonetheless, and more often than we care to admit, we feel their absence as strongly as their presence.

DAVID P. BARASH

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Enemies were teachers in disguise.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

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Enemies make us watchful of ourselves and induce self-examination; for we must argue thus: our foe hates us with reason or without reason; if without reason, then he not really hates us, but some other sort of person for whom he mistakes us; but if with reason, then it is plain we should improve, and remove the reason.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Mortal enemies are like beautiful kitchens: Some households have them, and when they belong to famous people, we're immediately more interested in them. Which makes public feuds between mortal enemies akin to fancy custom appliances and gleaming copper pots as far as the eye can see.

ALEX ABAD-SANTOS

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