Enemy Quotes - Page 21

• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Peace, Government

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

  Bill Vaughan

  New York, Politician, Spoil

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• Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

  Michael Bassey

  Eye, Faces, Causes

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• In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Purpose, Maintenance

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• Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Men, Hatred

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

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• If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Teacher, Firefighter, Political

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• Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

  Timothy Murphy

  War, Long, Hatred

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• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, War, Sound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.

  Obert Skye

  Purses, Faults, Wells

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• It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

  Rob Bell

  Praying, Fortitude, Love Your Enemies

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• To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Lying, Forgiving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

  Lynda Barry

  Imaginary Friend, Imaginary

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• I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

  Michele Bardsley

  Heart, Vampire, Betrayed

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• And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Eye, Winter

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• He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.

  Catherine Fisher

  Hate, Enough, Hate Him

  Catherine Fisher (2005). “Darkhenge”, Bodley Head Childrens

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• The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

  Philippa Gregory

  Brother, Uncles, Father

  Philippa Gregory (2009). “The White Queen”, Simon and Schuster

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• That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

  Derek Landy

  Giving, Ridiculous, Chance

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• Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sticks, Beats, Nettles

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “The far ends of time and earth”

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• Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Talking, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

  Stephen Crane

  Fate, Soldier, Betrayed

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.61, Broadview Press

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• You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

  William Goldman

  Art, Ignorance, Pity

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.87, A&C Black

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• Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Country, Spirit, God Love

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.213, Penguin

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• Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.

  Amish Tripathi

  True Evil, People, Confusion

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• Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Cutting, Receiving

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