Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die
Douglas MacArthur
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Saskya Pandita
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies
Dean Acheson
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish proverb
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies
Roderick Thorp
False friends are worse than open enemies
Proverb
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Karl Marx
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us
Thich Nhat Hanh
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends
Abraham Lincoln
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs
Elbert Hubbard
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
Vanna Bonta