Enemy Quotes - Page 6

• The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fence, Decided

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• A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

  Aristotle

  Common, Danger, Common Enemy

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2071, Princeton University Press

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• Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

  Gilbert Parker

  Memories, Men, Worst Enemy

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Constitution, Corruption

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• However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

  Ivan Panin

  Men

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

  Tobsha Learner

  Hate, Worst Enemy, Hatred

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Wish, Important

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• Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

  Aesop

  Kissing, Faithful, Deceitful

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• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

  Arthur Bloch

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, Penguin

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Chaos, Winner, Scene

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• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Friendship, Leadership

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

  Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39

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• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Pride

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• Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Wise, Fate, Destiny

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• There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Strong, Want, Resistance

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Navy

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.303, China Books

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

  Frederick The Great

  Design, Danger, Remedy

  Frederick the Great (2012). “Instructions for His Generals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

  John Buford

  Entering, Afternoon, Towns

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• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

  Socrates

  Life, Change, Strength

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• I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fool, Energetic, Five

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• Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Castles, Fame, Suffocating

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