Enemy Quotes - Page 61

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

What do I feel when I shoot an enemy? Recoil.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.