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Enemies Quotes

On rivals, protection, and who we call an enemy.

These quotes look at enemies from several angles: a government's duty to protect those without power, a mother's love outlasting family rifts, and a blunt admission of deserving one's own rivals. For related thoughts on loyalty, see Friends quotes.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Quotes by Aesop

Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

Quotes by Adam Grant

Friends Quotes

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Quotes by Abu Bakar Bashir

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

My first March for Life was in 2010, three months after I left my job in the abortion industry as clinic director at a Planned Parenthood in Texas. It was intensely emotional, shocking in many ways, especially the outright love...

Quotes by Abby Johnson

I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family - with all the problems of a family. We have to...

Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Good Quotes

The BJP has never considered its political opponents as enemies.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

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

Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

Quotes by Yitzhak Shamir

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Love Quotes

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

Winston Churchill

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

Quotes by William Whipple

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his...

Quotes by William Wallace

As governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies.

Quotes by William Wallace

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

Me Quotes

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Quotes by William Temple

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "enemies" quotes cover?
It ranges from a political observation about who needs protection, to family estrangement, a security-policy framing of "the enemy," and a personal reflection on deserving one's own enemies.
Does a quote here talk about protecting minorities?
Yes: "Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."
Is family conflict covered in this collection?
One quote lists it starkly - fathers turning on children, siblings becoming "inveterate enemies," spouses deserting each other - before contrasting it with how "a mother's love endures through all."
Does this collection include any political or security commentary?
Yes, restrained: one quote frames it as a security question - "We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists." That's presented as the speaker's own framing in a policy discussion, not a claim about any specific group endorsed by this page.
Is there a more personal take on enemies here?
Yes: "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends." See the Friends collection for the flip side.

One line also raises the harder question of naming who actually counts as an enemy. Explore Love quotes or Good quotes for connected themes.