Enemies Quotes

If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies.

Matthew Paris

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Laurell K Hamilton

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

Criss Jami

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

Criss Jami

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Charles Lederer

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Pierre Corneille

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

John Clayton

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Henry R. Luce

Many from the ignorance of these Maxims, and an inconsiderate zeal unto Truth, have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as Trophies unto the enemies of Truth: A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Browne

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

William Shakespeare

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Criss Jami

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes

William Shakespeare

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

John Wooden

Never get close to your enemies, you might start liking them.

Cristian L. Martinez

A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.

Henry David Thoreau

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

William Shakespeare