The Enemy Quotes

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

With every enemy, when you get closer you understand much more, or the picture dissolves.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.