If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.

I have no real enemies in comedy, but there are a couple of people who I'd laugh about if I heard that their legs had fallen off.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.

I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.

We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which we have sworn to protect and defend.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

To some degree, I don't think 'Batman' works in a completely modern city; I think Gotham has be reflective of his personality and those of his enemies.

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