Enemy Quotes - Page 29

• This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Territory

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• It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

  George McGovern

  Views, Neighbor, Combat

  George Stanley McGovern (1968). “A time of war, a time of peace”

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• The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

  Tim LaHaye

  Revenge, Gun, Men

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• No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Fate, Causes

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• We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Moral High Ground, Giving

  "Raging from the moral highground" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2000.

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• The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth... an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Mistake, Angel

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Innocence

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• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sweet, Passion, Silence

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• Good can be the enemy of great.

  Craig Groeschel

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• United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either.

  David Letterman

  Worst Enemy, Airline, United

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• Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

  John Fairclough

  Men, People, Understanding

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• The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

  Golda Meir

  Children, Hate, War

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• We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hero, Thinking, Compassion

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• I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Fall, Order

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• The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.

  Clement Attlee

  Real, Tests, Habeas Corpus

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• Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

  Neil Postman

  Teacher, Mind, Textbooks

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.116, Vintage

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• Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack

  Robert Greene

  Giving, Water, Fluid

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• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
  been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Dancer, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The fact is the enemy right now is within the Muslim community. A small percentage but it`s there.

  Donald Trump

  Community, Facts, Percentages

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving Up, America, Advice

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• Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

  Jack Weatherford

  Victory, Made

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

  Demetri Martin

  Sofas, Productivity

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2012

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• Have a great day. Note: does not apply to my enemies.

  Demetri Martin

  Have A Great Day, Doe, Notes

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2013

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• I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

  Idi Amin

  Mean, Order, Law

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• Muslims are not your enemy.

  Bernie Sanders

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