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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• An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine, Accomplishment

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

  Arrian

  War, School, Men

  Arrian (1970). “The life of Alexander the Great”

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• Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Jealousy, Passion, Envy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.39

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• I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Witty, Worst Enemy

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• Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Mean, Numbers

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• Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

  George Santayana

  Weapons, Argument, Dangerous

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

  John Stott

  Money, Light, Excess

  John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Obviousness, Economics, Correctness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.48, 谷月社

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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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• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sports, Home, Waiting

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• Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

  Perry M Smith

  Military, Responsibility, Understanding

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• Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Strong, College

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• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Running, Worst Enemy, Skills

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

  Donella Meadows

  Light, Appreciate, Perfect

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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