Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

Jeremy Davies

Friends are just enemies you don’t know enough about.

A. Philip Randolph

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good

We desensitized the enemy to the formations they saw on the night we attacked,

Jane Addams

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Jane Russell

Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.

I hate to say this, but you don't have the skill to be my enemy

Carl von Clausewitz

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

Carl von Clausewitz

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

Cardinal Richelieu

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Cardinal Richelieu

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

C. S. Lewis

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

James Morrison

We've suffered a tremendous loss. Spencer was more than a kind person. He never had an enemy and was an exceptional brother, father, husband and son.

Bryant H. McGill

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Carl von Clausewitz

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Al Goldstein

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Charles Kettering

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Bono

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

Aristotle Onassis

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

Bruce Babbitt

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

Edmund Burke

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

Eckhart Tolle

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

Eckhart Tolle

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Elie Wiesel

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

E. W. Howe

A conquered foe should be watched.

E. W. Howe

Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

Dwight L. Moody

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Albert Schweitzer

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Anna Wickham

Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.