quotations about enemies
Only rarely are these enemies of the easy-to-recognize, mustache-twirling variety. In some cases, of course, specific villains can readily be identified, but most of the time our enemies are subtle and diffuse, prone to transformation, sometimes even difficult to name. But they exist nonetheless, and more often than we care to admit, we feel their absence as strongly as their presence.
DAVID P. BARASH
Beloved Enemies
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
HOWARD TAYLOR
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
PLATO
Lysis
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
ALAN BRADLEY
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
Beware of meat twice boil'd, and an old foe reconcil'd.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733