Enemy
Quotes - Our best enemy is the one who challenges us
“If
you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be
fake then be an enemy instead.”
―
Santosh Kalwar
“A
great nation is like a great man:
When
he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
Having
realized it, he admits it.
Having
admitted it, he corrects it.
He
considers those who point out his faults
as
his most benevolent teachers.
He
thinks of his enemy
as
the shadow that he himself casts.”
―
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Together,
we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
―
Criss Jami, Healology
“If
you're confused about what to do,
it's
a sign that your enemy is winning.”
―
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Tyrion
let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle,
"sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's
Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How
odd. I think quite the same of you.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“Some
people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would
swear they are talking about their own successes.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“To
have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting”
―
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
“My
father wrote: "Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you
trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you
treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.”
― Emily
Thorne
“Our
best enemy is the one who challenges us, and so doing, teaches us to set out to
discover our potentials, while our worst friend is the one who is numbing us
and lulling us into complacency, always being consenting or acquiescent.
("Being my best friend.")”
―
Erik Pevernagie
“You're
the enemy. I don't want to sympathize with you. So... So don't... Don't cry
like that in front of me! Damn it...”
―
Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Band 11
“I
think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the
darkness of their imagined fears.”
―
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Be
where your enemy is not.”
―
Sun Tzu
“the
opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”
―
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“I
respect those who don't secretly hate me.”
―
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“[T]he
useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of
the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get
disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors
specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these
political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage
of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United
States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders.
They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a
nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know
too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists
come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to
power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the
wall and shot.”
―
Yuri Bezmenov
“Hatred
could blind a person’s eyes, making him unable to admit anything in favor of
his enemy.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“If
your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if
he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap
burning coals on his head.”
―
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
“In
order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”
―
Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon
“It
is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the
people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully,
and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
―
Criss Jami, Healology
“I
suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a
friend.”
―
Anne Bishop, Heir to the Shadows
