Mortal Enemies Quotes

• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Forgiveness, Witty

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Enemy, Looks

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

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• The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

  Mitch Daniels

  Enemy, Social, Arithmetic

  "Transcript: Daniels gives GOP response to State of the Union". www.cnn.com. January 24, 2012.

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• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

  Mitch Daniels

  Men, Self, People

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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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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• The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Animal, Men, Race

  "The Social Life of Animals". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, Chapter VII: Some Human Implications, 1938.

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• I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Enemy, Arbitrary

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.80, Regnery Publishing

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• Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

  Alex Bogusky

  Creativity, Innovation, Enemy

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• I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

  "Self-realization".

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• However much faith to obey God we now have, we will need to strengthen it continually and keep it refreshed constantly. We can do that by deciding now to be more quick to obey and more determined to endure. Learning to start early and to be steady are the keys to spiritual preparation. Procrastination and inconsistency are its mortal enemies.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Spiritual, Procrastination, Keys

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• I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

  Scott Westerfeld

  Enemy, My Best Friend, Sometimes

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• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced. I was very hurt and very angry and so was she. But when kids are involved, you either become friends with respect or you become mortal enemies.

  Val Kilmer

  Hurt, Children, Kids

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

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• I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Enemy, Democracy, Corruption

  "CNN's Amanpour", www.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

  G. Edward Griffin

  Enemy, Collectivism, Mortals

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• The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Believe, Taken, People

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• How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Government, Law

  "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

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• The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, Islamic, Fighting

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• [Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

  Elvis Costello

  Enemy, Radio, Mortals

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Enemy

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees," I said. "The Yankees tribe." Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. "It's a strong tribe," I added. "Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.

  D. J. MacHale

  Strong, Hate, Character

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Real, Years, Long

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• Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Order, Gentleman, Enemy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.268, Macmillan

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• Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

  Orson Scott Card

  Government, Law, Enemy

  "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

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