Enemy Quotes - Page 13

• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

  Mario Puzo

  Hate, Hatred, Judgment

  "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Loyalty, Heart

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.

  Dwan J. Young

  Jesus, Light, Shining

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• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  William Westmoreland

  War, Believe, Men

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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• Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

  Yasser Arafat

  Friendship, Inspiring, Military

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• If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Enough, Bigs

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• We have met the enemy and they are ours.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Military

  Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

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• The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

  Kristina McMorris

  Peace, Lines, Strange

  Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.371, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Wise, Lying, Deceit

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911). “The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti”

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• I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

  Lupe Fiasco

  War, Fighting, Night

  "Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. Mach 3, 2011.

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• If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

  Ernst Rohm

  History, Nazism, Return

  Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

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• One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

  Douglas A. Zembiec

  Noble, Can Do

  "The unapologetic warrior". Interview with Tony Perry, www.latimes.com. August 22, 2004.

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• There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Atheism, Literature

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 14

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Knowledge

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• An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Telling The Truth, Cynicism, Altruism

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• Our friends, the enemy.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 221-22, 1922.

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• The best is the enemy of the good.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Military, Learning

  Letter to Duc de Richelieu, 18 June 1744. Although this saying is now associated with Voltaire, he is obviously quoting an Italian proverb here. The French form, which he used later, is Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

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• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Consuming

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.199, Cornell University Press

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• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Time, Innocence

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

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• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Goal, Innovation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “A discourse on ancient and modern learning. The drummer; or, The haunted house. The Free-holder. Of Christian religion”, p.198

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