Enemy
But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony. Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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