Enemy Quotes
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I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.
John Buchan
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...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.
J. B. MacKinnon
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People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.
Alex Wolff
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I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.
Janice Dickinson
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
George Horace Lorimer
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[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Martin Van Creveld
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Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
Hafez al-Assad
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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
Alexandre Dumas
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I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
Benjamin Butler
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The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
Franz Halder
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Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.
Laird Hamilton
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The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.
Angela McGlowan
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I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.
James Mattis
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
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Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom
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Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.
E. Stanley Jones
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
Haile Selassie
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
Andrew Vachss
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Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.
Louie Gohmert
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Age is not an enemy to me.
Bernard Hopkins