Quotes on Enemy

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.