Enemy Quotes
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.
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I never have a problem with the weight cut. My number one enemy is injuries because I train so hard.
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When the Argentine light cruiser Belgrano was hit by two torpedoes from the snout of Conqueror, a British hunter-killer, the enemy escort ships immediately gave chase. They were out of ideas after just five miles. The Royal Navy vessel had approached unseen, fired unseen, and simply disappeared.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
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Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
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Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.
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Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
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Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
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Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies
