| Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. -- Carl von Clausewitz |
| Author:
von Clausewitz, CarlEra:
1780 |
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| If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. -- Rabelais |
| Author:
RabelaisEra:
1490 |
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| Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus |
| Author:
TacitusEra:
55 |
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| He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so Pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Author:
Lavater, Johann KasparEra:
1741 |
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| Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. -- George Washington |
| Author:
Washington, GeorgeEra:
1732 |
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| A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. -- Aesop |
| Author:
AesopEra:
-550 |
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| Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. -- Antisthenes |
| Author:
AntisthenesEra:
-444 |
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| An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. -- Saadi |
| Author:
SaadiEra:
1184 |
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| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -- Eric Hoffer |
| Author:
Hoffer, EricEra:
1902 |
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