Enemies Quotes

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency

Aldous Huxley

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Francesco Petrarch

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Francesco Petrarch

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Aesop

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

Aesop

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

N. F. Simpson

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Lord Chesterfield

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Scottish Proverb

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Henry David Thoreau

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Chinese Proverb

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.)

Christopher Hitchens

One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.

Source Unknown

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

Source Unknown

Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

Source Unknown

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

Victor Hugo