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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
Chuck Palahniuk

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare

Every man is his own chief enemy.
Anacharsis

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell

He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.
German Proverb

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.
Walter Mossberg

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell

I joke that we're our own worse enemy.
Chris Weitz

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
Mikhail Saakashvili

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.
Hebrew Proverb

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
William Saroyan

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
August Bebel

A lot of the problem here is there is no enemy, no common thing to rally around. You can't declare war on the weather.
Jennifer Duffy

There's no decision. That's my job and I'm a medic. He'd put down his arms. He's an enemy prisoner of war, and that's the right thing to do.
Stephen Tschiderer

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.
Muslih uddin Sadi

I guess what I'm saying is, I'm not your enemy.
Chuck Klosterman

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Sterling Hayden

I just had to hang with 'em for a little while. Confidence is the big key. You're your own worst enemy sometimes.
Brandon Claussen

This command does not condone the mistreatment of enemy combatants or the desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs.
Jason Kamiya

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
Tim Read

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
French Proverb

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor

The enemy should prepare coffins because we will respond quickly and decisively in the depths of the Zionist entity.
Islamic Jihad

OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy.
Ambrose Bierce

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Mel Brooks

So who is my enemy?
Ghada Jamsheer

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

The complexity of the industry is the enemy of smart shopping.
Sam Simon

I'm in Montreal so I'm part of the enemy, ... Edmonton isn't the only place I've played. I've done this before and it's not a big deal to me really.
Terry Vaughn

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabian Proverb

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson

Anyone who makes an enemy of his own people and compatriots, will certainly reap a bitter harvest.
Li Weiyi

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Ben Jonson

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie Ten Boom

We're our own worst enemy.
Randy Larsen

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

I hate Lou Dobbs with a passion. He is my mortal enemy. If i find him, I will destroy him. He owes me 15 dollars.
Brent Musburger

Size is the enemy of growth.
Scott Potter

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Thomas Browne, Sr.

Just the fact that we have one - that's like the enemy .
Dennis Tarsi

[Traditional broadcasters] break into two camps, ... One sees it as the enemy; the other sees it as an opportunity.
Jeremy Schwartz

This assassination will open the gates of hell on the enemy.
Islamic Jihad

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois

His own worst enemy.
Robert Lacey

Heat is the number one enemy of electronic devices. Why not create less heat in the first place?
Andrew Fanara

They have enormous fighting spirit, and when they are in contact (with the enemy), they do not let up.
Jason Kamiya

Art has no enemy except ignorance.
Latin Proverb

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
Thomas J. Jackson

He's been his own worst enemy in some cases.
Ned Mcginley

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes

If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.
Japanese Proverb

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb

Wealth is both an enemy and a friend.
Nepal Proverb

Leaders of the enemy should know that they personally are targets.
Islamic Jihad

I don't think he had an enemy.
Tom Mcdonald

I always study the enemy, so I might check it out. But it looks kinda bull-.
Ja Rule

That kid always hits the ball, but he's so slow. When we hit the ball, we put the pressure on them. Earlier, we were our own worst enemy.
Val Trujillo

The enemy is ever vigilant. He's out there seeking whom he may desire. There have to be more of us.
Ronda Storms

I feel that if people do not believe that their enemy is human, then I really think that we are doomed.
Joseph Castelo

A win is a win. We are struggling right now; our worst enemy is ourselves.
Dawn Davis

We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly

Humility is the best form of warfare; it is the only thing the enemy cannot do.
Keri Harvey

A flatterer is a secret enemy.
Hungarian Proverb

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
John Kord Lagemann

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Bette Davis

[Casualties have been] extremely light on the coalition side, ... and conversely there have been a lot of enemy casualties.
Bob Chase

I've seen the enemy and it is me.
Dan Richardson

I'm public enemy No.1.
Glenn Mcgrath

We were our own worst enemy. We could have taken this one.
Brandon Kress

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Our friends, the enemy.
Pierre jean De Beranger

Become a champion in life, By conquering the enemy within.
Master Jin Kwon

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
Mari Evans

The enemy that brought us 9/11 continues to represent one of the greatest dangers to this nation.
Genjohn Abizaid

It is still going on. We have not encountered enemy forces yet.
Jim Yonts

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
Sun Myung Moon

The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.
Bhagavad Gita

And that's where we have to go in the interests of both countries if we are to beat this common enemy.
C. Blair

The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.
David E. Kelley

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
Alfred Hitchcock

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse tung

Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.
Hermann Goering

The enemy is broken.
John Sattler

We're our own worst enemy. We don't seek help from outsiders.
Steve Lyle

We realized we were fighting the same enemy.
Sky Dayton

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
John Buford

To a certain corporate cast of mind people who die in air crashes are really the enemy.
Richard Schaden

The perfect may be the enemy of the good.
David Pearlman

If you call people terrorists, it makes it easy for a nut to take out the enemy for God and country.
Mark Sprengel

I don't like to sit with the enemy during the game.
Rob Scuderi

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes

Balance is the enemy of art.
Richard Eyre

America is our enemy and we don't want them in Afghanistan, ... When they insult our holy book they have insulted us.
Ahmad Shah

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan

Perfection is the enemy of the good.
Gustave Flaubert

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
Anacharsis Cloots

Living in the same bunk can be one of the most difficult adjustments because you are sleeping with the enemy.
John Wallach

The posts can be your best friend or your worst enemy sometimes. And today they were my best friend.
Jordan Leedle

I can confirm that the coalition has made contact with the enemy and that some have been killed, ... A number of attacks by air have been conducted.
Roger Lane

Again, we were our own worst enemy. Again, it wasn't a lot of fun. We are just not taking care of the football, and that's all there is to it.
Bobby Humphries

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

He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.
Felipe Noguera

We need a common enemy to unite us.
Condoleezza Rice

Enemy of the State.
Jerry Bruckheimer

That's my most serious concern. That is really being your own worst enemy.
George Doughty

George Bush is the enemy.
Wellington Webb

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers

Excessive humidity is a severe enemy to antique textiles.
Todd Fisher

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur James Balfour

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
Adam Hastings

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Dorothee Deluzy

There is no doubt it is all related, ... The enemy will try a second time and a third time.
Fouad Siniora

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George Orwell

The perfect was the enemy of the good.
Tom Curley

Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Francesco Petrarch

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
Pablo Picasso

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me.
Shirley Manson

It's important to say 'No. You can't let them chop up your land and give it to your enemy.
David Wilder

He literally does not have an enemy in the world, unless it's some of the criminals he's prosecuted.
Charles J. Cooper

The enemy can try to do this to us every single day, but it's not going to change our resolve or desire to see things through to the very end.
Richard French

One important thing is missing: trust and the understanding that we have a common enemy.
Mikhail Margelov

It's impossible to know who is the enemy, who supports the enemy or where the enemy is.
Michael Uhl

It was an enemy of Islam and that if one is to carry out an operation it would be better to hit the biggest enemy.
Ahmed Ressam

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
James Meredith

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

The endangered gray nurse shark is its own worst enemy.
Guan Xuebin

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
Diane De Pointiers

When we talk about loving your enemy here, it means something. And we're not sure that you can do that.
Dallas Willard

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana Alexander

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong

In politics, Madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney

No one else can bring this overwhelming advantage, ... We can see and know where the enemy is and they cannot see and know where we are. They are fighting blind.
Don Shepperd

Enemy combatants could be affected by this regulation.
Sheldon Smith

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

Time is my greatest enemy.
Evita Perón

The only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The enemy could not have got a handful of men, through the cross-fire.
John Bigelow

Comfort to the Enemy.
Elmore Leonard

I am not an enemy (of Curry). We don't have hard feelings among one another. I told him he was entitled to (apply).
Ed Michaels

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn

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