Enemy Quotes - Page 24

• What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Samurai

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Soul, Mind, Wonderful

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• You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

  Rubin Carter

  Gains, Reconciliation

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• Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Soul, Manual Labor, Idleness

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• The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

  Bill Johnson

  Lying, Faces, Problem

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• What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Together, Bread

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving, Might, Favorite Foods

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Arrogance, Arrogant

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Government, Two

  Letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824.

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• The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicidal, Slavery, India

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• He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Wisdom, Hero

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

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• It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

  Felix Adler

  Zest, Soul, Mind

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Strategy, Defeated

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• Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

  Lucan

  War, People, Earth

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• One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fake Friends, Smart, Harm

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• If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Evil, Ifs

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• There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

  John Adams

  Mind, Storm, Traitor

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• Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

  David Cameron

  Cancer, Heart, Enemy Of Progress

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• Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Trying, Should

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

  Plato

  Wise, Kindness, Men

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• I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

  Antonio Banderas

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Worst

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Men, Doors

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• Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

  Ingrid Weir

  Reality, Acknowledge

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