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"The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression."
"Some people are nobody's enemies but their own"
"I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing."
"Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies."
"It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies."
"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."
"The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place."
"To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."
"to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer."
"The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known."
"Security is the chief enemy of mortals."
"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"
"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself."
"The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized."
"I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion"
"It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores."
"Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three."
"Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home."
