Enemy Quotes
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That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.
Jon Tester -
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern
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It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
Plutarch -
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Ellery Channing -
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one it becomes necessary to have an accurate knowledge of the enemy's camp.
Antoine-Henri Jomini -
The enemy and his allies are now at the gates of the capitalists' fortress. Is there any hope that the businessman will finally sense the danger to himself and the system of which he is a part and rise to meet the challenge?
Benjamin A. Rogge -
I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
Mike Tyson -
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.
Neeme Jarvi -
The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Akong Rinpoche -
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides -
The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
Agis II -
For many people the war begins at home: Each year about three million children in the United States are reported as victims of child abuse and neglect. One million of these cases are serious and credible enough to force local child protective services or the courts to take action.12 In other words, for every soldier who serves in a war zone abroad, there are ten children who are endangered in their own homes. This is particularly tragic, since it is very difficult for growing children to recover when the source of terror and pain is not enemy combatants but their own caretakers.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton -
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
Lech Walesa -
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward -
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
William L. Marcy -
You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.
William Goldman -
Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.
Nicholas Negroponte
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He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.
Catherine Fisher -
In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
Thomas Harris -
He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
Gautama Buddha -
A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
George Bernard Shaw