Enemy Quotes
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Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.
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Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
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Haste, the great enemy.
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I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.
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A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
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When survival was in question, you fought hard and you seized every advantage, because your enemy was sure to do the same.
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And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.
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We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
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Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
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My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.
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The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
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The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.
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Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
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I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
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Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.
