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Enemies Quotes

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It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

- Jesse Jackson

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Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

- Madame de Stael

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

- African proverb

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Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

- Marshall Rosenberg

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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

- Thor Heyerdahl

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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

- Henry Miller

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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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When we understand the needs that motivate our own and other's behavior, we have no enemies.

- Marshall Rosenberg

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

- Oscar Wilde

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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

- Arthur Ashe

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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

- George W. Bush

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No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

- Napoleon Hill

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchill

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Last guys don't finish nice.

- Saul Alinsky

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Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

- William Blake

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

- Albert Schweitzer

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

- George Washington

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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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