Enemy Quotes - Page 5

• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Vanity, Dignity, Constant

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• Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Art, Military, Discipline

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• I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

  Elie Wiesel

  Promise, Threat

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• A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

  Aesop

  Men, Feel Good, Fables

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.107

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• It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Fighting, Thinking

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• It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

  Voltaire

  Patriotism, Mankind, Modern Warfare 2

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.643, e-artnow

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• If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Want, Ifs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.476

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• Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  Robert Kennedy

  Forgiveness, Clever, Names

  Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)

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• More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

  Nick Lampson

  Fighting, Air, Sea

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• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible, Jesus, Hate

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• Man is his own worst enemy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Worst Enemy, Worst

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book X, Chapter 12a, Section III), 68-43 BC.

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• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

  James Alison

  People, Giving, Identity

  James Alison (2010). “Broken Hearts and New Creations: Intimations of a Great Reversal”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Privilege

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• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Following Instructions, Giving

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

  Bias of Priene

  Differences, Friend Enemy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922)". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Admitting, I Hate

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Friendship, Opportunity, May

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• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  "How to Help Someone Who is Depressed, or Suicidal : Practical Suggestions from a Survivor". Book by John Cook, 1993.

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• One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Over You, Feelings

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Anger, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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