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Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn. — John Stockwell

Trying to outrun the novelist's most insidious enemy, which is doubt. — Stephen King

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. — Yitzhak Rabin

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

Enemies are just friends in reverse. — Gary Busey

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. — Alan Green

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. — Edward Abbey

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy. — Kobo Abe

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

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

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them. — Jacobo Timerman

Yes, God knew the number of a man's days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. — Karen Kingsbury

The eminent strategy had won yesterday,
but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow. — Toba Beta

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy. — Thomas Jefferson

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration. — George R R Martin

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland. — Petro Poroshenko

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever. — Richard M. Nixon

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame. — Tallulah Bankhead

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant. — Derek Landy

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies. — Frank Moore Colby

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. — Aristotle Onassis

If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.' — Kerry King

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love. — Amy Dickinson

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love. — Antonin Sertillanges

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. — Anais Nin

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young. — Agnes Varda

In case of doubt, do not be content with a single enemy, take two. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. — Aristotle.

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

For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy. — Harry Stein

You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering. — Stevan V. Nikolic

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy. — Floriano Martins

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. — Marcus Aurelius

If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you — Miyamoto Musashi

What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism. — Mohsin Hamid

What better way to weaken a powerful enemy than to get it fighting itself? — Charles Stross

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

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy. — Michael Savage

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away. — Fabius Maximus

The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies. — William Blake

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. — Rumi

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself. — Duke Of Wellington

It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy. — Robert Leckie

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. — Publilius Syrus

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — John Updike

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. — Luc De Clapiers

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. — Henry David Thoreau

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem. — James C. Collins

Your greatest friend is within you, not beside you; your greatest enemy is within you, not around you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. — Elie Wiesel

Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! — Tom Clancy

Storm is not your enemy; it does not even know whether you are there! Your enemy is your unpreparedness for it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win. — Oliver North

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? — Napoleon Bonaparte

Winning is not only about strengthening yourself; it's also about weakening the enemy. — Ashwin Sanghi

War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself. — Anonymous

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie. — Brother Andrew

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies. — Jack Vance

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies. — Jack Ma

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like? — David McGee

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends. — Walt Whitman

The great enemy of morality is indifference. — Albert Schweitzer

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend — Paulo Coelho

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best. — Bill W.

The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. — Tertullian

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. — Frank Herbert

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If the enemy opens the door, you must race in. — Sun Tzu

Believers infiltrate the enemy's territory with knowledge and power. — Sherry K. White

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy. — John Scalzi

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida. — James Mattis

One enemy at the time. — Sarah Dunant

Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize. — Sorin Cerin

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy — Robert Louis Stevenson

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him — Eric Hoffer

Comparison is the enemy to creativity. — E'yen A. Gardner

We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out? — Debasish Mridha

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. — Alan Dershowitz

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain ... pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. — Terry Pratchett

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway. — Mother Teresa

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher. — Gautama Buddha

Your only enemy is fear, — Kelly Gardiner

They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy. — Srinivas Shenoy

Duplication is the primary enemy of a well-designed system. — Robert C. Martin

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement. — Michael Dolan

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert. — Paulo Coelho

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. — David Hackworth

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry. — Matt Papa

The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'. — Stella Gibbons

Little changes are the enemies of great changes. — Bertolt Brecht

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers. — Taliesin