Enemy Quotes - Page 14

• Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.142, Wesleyan University Press

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• Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fall, Friend Enemy

  "Pro Rege Deitaro". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter IX), 45 BC.

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• Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stars, Hate, Loss

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• The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Wish

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• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friends, Jealousy

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• Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

  James Fallows

  Anger, Writing, Letters

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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, History

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• A weak invention of the Enemy.

  Colley Cibber

  Weak, Invention

  Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53

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• The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Love You, Mean

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• The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

  Vespasian

  Sweet, Smell, Body

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• There was once 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 came on his 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

  Summer, Blow, Men

  "Æsop's fables; with drawings by Fritz Kredel".

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• I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Judging, Judgement, Politics

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• The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Team, Giants

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• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

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• 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

  Media, Pals, Closest

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• Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

  August Bebel

  Civilization, Liberty, Good Christian

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• 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.

  Zach Wamp

  Military, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

  John Yoo

  Doe, Different, Als

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• My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

  Pink

  Badass, Dad, Bad Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, Art, Fear

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Cutting, Two

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.23, Bottom of the Hill

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• It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Interesting, Underestimate

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• All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

  Karl Hess

  Liberty, States

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• Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

  Hakim Bey

  Kings, Law, Sorcery

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.23, Autonomedia

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