Enemy Quotes
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The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated
Taliesin
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Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
Edmund Burke
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Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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No ideology is more unacceptable to our way of life than radical Islam. We don't have to live in fear of it. This is an enemy we can defeat.
Jon Keyser
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That is, by arming the negro we have added a powerful ally. They will make good soldiers and taking them from the enemy weaken him in the same proportion they strengthen us. I am therefore most decidedly in favor of pushing this policy to the enlistment of a force sufficient to hold all the South falling into our hands and to aid in capturing more.
Ulysses S. Grant
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
Muhammad Ali
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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 R. Alger
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Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
Delia Ephron
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All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
H. L. Mencken
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Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
Chuck Palahniuk
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It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distanceI'm not giving inI'm not missing outI'm not giving up on implausible dreams - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
Neil Peart
Rush
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Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
P. C. Cast
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Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?
Paracelsus
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I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.
Albert Einstein
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I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.
Kato Kaelin
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
Pankaj Mishra
