"If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism."
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"The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without."
"I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one."
"The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend."
"If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies."
"Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends."
"The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer."
"The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change."
"The enemy of creativity is fear."
"Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed."
"The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware."
"Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you."
"It's best to know what the enemy are saying."
"Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."
"It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy."
"France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier."
"It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend."
"The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery."
"I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour."
"All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place."