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"Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones."
"Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all."
"Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence."
"Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you."
"Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy."
"One enemy is too much."
"He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy."
"Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]"
"The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]"
"He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible."
"The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it."
"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
"Some allies are more dangerous than enemies."
"A dead enemy is a joy forever"
"Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei"
"We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace."
"My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us."
"Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies."
"It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it."
"If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate."
