It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Bette Davis

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
David Ogilvy

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Francis of Assisi

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley