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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.
If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
The purpose of the military is to close with and destroy the enemy on behalf of our national security priorities.
We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.
Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.
We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.
Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.