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1.
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Unknown

The facts are the most formidable adversary of the State.
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2.
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
Che Guevara

It is a disheartening situation to have no acquaintances, yet more melancholy not to have adversaries.
3.
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
Alexander the Great

Let us comport ourselves in a manner that all desire to be our allies and all tremble at the thought of being our adversaries.
4.
The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
Thomas Sankara

Those who propagate darkness to a people are their adversaries.
5.
One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.
Meek Mill

I implored the Almighty to rid me of my adversaries, and soon enough I found myself without companions.
6.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Treat your adversaries kindly because they stimulate you to be at your peak.
7.
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
Khalil Gibran

'Then the Lord commanded, Cherish your adversary, and I followed His guidance by cherishing myself.'
8.
I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown.
Bray Wyatt

I shall craft my kingdom near the ocean, so I can gloat from my seat as my adversaries plunge beneath the waves.
9.
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
Fidel Castro

The first action of tyrants is to stifle free speech, to institute censorship. There is no question that a free press is the nemesis of autocracy.
10.
One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?
Steven Furtick

11.
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
Joseph Stalin

12.
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Authentic faith is a transformative power: it is an implacable foe of subjugation, advantage, and inequity.
13.
I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.
Kevin Gates

I cherish Divinity, I warmly regard everybody else close to me as myself, and I fondly embrace my adversary.
14.
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.
Genghis Khan

15.
Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
Attila the Hun

Be wary of an adversary's capacity to oppose you anew, regardless of their magnitude.
16.
Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.
Saddam Hussein

Do not act rashly or demean a foe after conquering them.
17.
Free time is the enemy of progress
Casey Neistat

18.
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Noam Chomsky

19.
Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.
Ellen G. White

Whatever entices the intellect away from the Divine, whatever pulls the affections away from Jesus, is detrimental to one's spirit.
20.
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
Assata Shakur

Never permit your adversaries to decide who you should consider an adversary.
21.
Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.
Mike Murdock

Assault is the evidence that your rival foresees your triumph.
22.
The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!
Robert E. Lee

'My Texans never retreat!'
23.
Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.
Simon Bolivar

Do not contrast your spiritual strength with that of the adversary. Metaphysical power can never be rivaled by physical might. You are people, they are animals. You have autonomy, they are subjugated.
24.
To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
Marcus Garvey

Be cognizant of your adversary and comprehend him is a fundamental element of a human's full training.
25.
And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.
St. Catherine of Siena

26.
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo

Our primary foe is not an outside power, but our own infirmities, our timidity, our self-absorption, our duplicity, our shortsighted sentimentality.
27.
I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

'I am a consequence of the multitude of my nation and the consequence of my foe.'
28.
Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
Niki Lauda

Contentment is a foe. It renders you vulnerable. Unexpectedly, there is something at stake.
29.
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Folks may stumble countless times, but they become losers only when they start to point the finger at somebody else. Always pardon your adversaries; nothing enrages them more.
30.
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.
Erwin Rommel

31.
When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.
Miyamoto Musashi

Launch a swift and calculated offensive, striking the adversary first to gain an advantage and maintaining relentless pressure throughout.
32.
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
Julius Caesar

The utmost adversary will conceal themselves in the most unlikely spot.
33.
To all those whove tried to belong, and just didnt fit inyou are loved. To all those whove tried to stand out and be heardyoure admired. To all those whove tried to be themselves, only to be shut downyou are supported. To all those whove tried to kill themselves because lifes unfairyoure NOT alone. Love your friends, love your enemies, because in the end, theyll all be kissing your ass when you make it.
Gerard Way

34.
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
Toussaint Louverture

35.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Shimon Peres

'You don't achieve harmony with allies. You accomplish it with extremely disagreeable adversaries.'
36.
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
Maimonides

I will vanquish my adversaries by transforming them into allies.
37.
When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.
Smith Wigglesworth

38.
God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!
Paula White

God turns the tables on your adversaries and makes what they meant for evil into something positive. It wasn't a hindrance but rather an opening! Be patient and witness the wonders God will work in your life!
39.
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
Zoroaster

If one desires a companion, then they must be willing to fight for them: and in order to battle, one must have the ability to become an adversary.
40.
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.
Richard M. Nixon

Always remember, the media is a foe. The establishment is an adversary. The educators are a rival. Educators are an opponent. Emblazon that on a chalkboard 100 times and never forget it.
41.
This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
Rod Serling

42.
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
A. Philip Randolph

43.
The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

'The most severe retribution should be exacted from the betrayer, followed by the foe. If I had limited ammo and was confronted with both a traitor and an adversary, I would discharge it at the former.'
44.
Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.
Smith Wigglesworth

Before a man can subdue the foe, he must recognize there is nothing restraining him.
45.
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.
Pope John Paul II

46.
Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.
Pol Pot

'It is preferable to make an inadvertent sacrifice of the guiltless than to inadvertently pardon a foe.'
47.
Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
Nizar Qabbani

'Our adversaries did not breach our boundaries; They infiltrated our frailties like insects.'
48.
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
Paulo Coelho

If everyone is praising you, something is not right. Try to seek out at least one detractor to stay vigilant.
49.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

"Gentlemen, when the adversary is ensnared in an error we should not interfere prematurely."
50.
He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!
Zoroaster