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“Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.”
― John le Carré, Our Game

“As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.
-Captain Tagon”
― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei

“But inevitably, when I can't harm the people who harmed me, I just end up harming the people who love me. So maybe retaliation or holding on to anger about the harm done to me doesn't actually combat evil. Maybe it feeds it. In the end, if we're not careful, we can actually absorb the worst of our enemy and on some level even become them.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.”
― David Gemmell, Echoes of the Great Song

“There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything
because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

“Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.”
― Joseph Bruchac, Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Even though he's my enemy I don't know anything about him.
Am I afraid to know about him?
Do I want to think of him as a monster rather than a human being? (Sarsa, Basara, Vol. 13)”
― Yumi Tamura, Basara, Vol. 13

“Maxim 9:
Never turn your back on an enemy.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

“When two wise men are blaming one another,
then time has come for you to be the third one.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.”
― Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

“Indifference was our greatest enemy.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Nobody me without my enemy.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“E nevoie de un duÈ™man ca să-i dai poporului o speranță. Cineva a spus că patriotismul e ultimul refugiu al canaliilor: cine nu are principii morale se înfășoară de obicei într-un steag, iar bastarzii fac întotdeauna apel la puritatea stirpei lor. Identitatea naÈ›ională este ultima resursă a dezmoÈ™teniÈ›ilor. Or, simÈ›ul identității se întemeiază pe ură, ura împotriva celui ce nu-i identic. Trebuie să cultivi ura ca patos cetățenesc. DuÈ™manul e prietenul popoarelor. E nevoie oricând de cineva demn de a fi urât ca să te simÈ›i justificat în propria-È›i mizerie. Ura este adevărata pasiune primordială. Iubirea reprezintă o situaÈ›ie anormală.”
― Umberto Eco, Il cimitero di Praga

“I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Onze boosaardige aartsvijand had de concentratieboog van een peuter die hyper was van de suiker.”
― Shanna Swendson, Once Upon Stilettos

“It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.”
― Max Hawthorne, Kronos Rising

“Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Only men who have crouched in the trenches under heavy machine gun fire, and then rose as one to charge the perceived enemy, know true comradery. But hey, maybe corporate team building exercises also transform strangers into brothers.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“The most frightening Enemy, the most neutral Companion and the best Friend: Time.”
― Sino Melo

“The most frightening Enemy, the most neutral Companion and the best Friend: the Present.”
― Sino Melo

“Someone willfully caused a Fight in which one Person had no Chance — was it the wrong or the right Enemy/Opponent/Victim?”
― Sino Melo

“Haloperidol is one of the worst Medications ever, it causes unfathomable Pain that I'd not even wish for my worst Enemy + it's unnecessary and uncontrollable Pain, that's why I don't chase it.”
― Sino Melo

“Darkness was not my enemy, but rather the landscape where I learned to shine.”
― DarkNightBeacon

“We cross the room, but in the doorway, Haymitch's voice stops us. "Katniss, when you're in the arena," he begins. Then he pauses. He's scowling in a way that suggests I've already disappointed him.

"What?" I ask defensively.

"You just remember who the enemy is," Haymitch tells me. "That's all. Now go on. Get out of here.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Haymitch's last words of advice to me. Why would I need reminding? I have always known who the enemy is. Who starves and tortures and kills us in the arena. Who will soon kill everyone I love.

My bow drops as his meaning registers. Yes, I know who the enemy is. And it's not Enobaria.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire