Enemy Quotes
Quotes about Enemies

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb

Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform
in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve.
It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
- William Westmoreland

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as
a basis for architecture.
- Arthur Erickson

We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I
think everything will be alright.
- Alice Thomas Ellis

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not,
will be victorious.
- Sun Tzu

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Orson Welles

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed
from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
- Olin Miller

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must
become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- Voltaire

That is the thankless position of the father in the family -
the provider for all,
and the enemy of all.
- August Strindberg

Time is my greatest enemy.
- Evita Peron

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
- Mao Tse-Tung

Every educated person is a future enemy.
- Martin Bormann

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer.
The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars.
I think it's incumbent upon us to.
- Dan Aykroyd

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
- Tom Metzger

My greatest enemy is reality.
I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
- Margaret Anderson

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience
is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy -
whether he knows it or not.
- Orlando A. Battista

By fighting a limited, defensive war,
America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
- Nguyen Cao Ky

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.
Let a man be one thing or the other,
and we then know how to meet him.
- Aesop

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think
of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S
military uniform and standing in the gap between an
enemy threat and civilian life.
- Zack Wamp

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
- Billy Sunday

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
- Martin Luther

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.
- Hermann Goering

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.
- Charles Caleb Colton

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
- Guy Ritchie

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along
so well is that they have a common enemy.
- Sam Levenson

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's
resistance without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda;
it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse
toward a mostly imagined,
highly dangerous outside enemy.
- Mark Poster

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy,
has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous,
but they are not.
Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
- David Korten

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier,
but his own commander.
- Ramman Kenoun

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody.
One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over,
but I wasn't his enemy either.
- Kato Kaelin

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is
once that must be based on deterrence.
For today, the dictator may be your friend,
but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
- Natan Sharansky

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
- Ian Mcewan

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
- Joel Osteen

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy,
to accomplish our will.
- George Washington

Let the poor man count as his enemy,
and his worst enemy,
every invader of the right of free discussion.
- Gerrit Smith

The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism
and the source of cynicism among American reporters
and editors throughout our history.
- Richard Harwood