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Enemy Quotes - Page 53

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Maria Edgeworth (1857). “Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond”, p.225

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

"The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, 1929.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.217

The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.

"Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 157), 1998.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

"Key commanders have their say on Afghanistan" by Walter Pincus, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.75, University of Michigan Press