Foe Quotes

“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.”
― Toba Beta

“The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1824

“A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.”
― Anthony Liccione

“One foe at a time, that was what the old man always said.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“Seasoned killers all, thought Selmy, but it is one thing to face a foe in the pit when his coming is heralded by horns and drums and another to find a hidden killer before he can strike.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“There is no wine so sweet as wine taken from a foe.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.”
― J.M. Coetzee

“When I was saying “yes”,
I was always the best,
The minute I said “no”,
I became their foe”
― Charmaine J Forde

“To whom shall I speak today ?
Brothers are mean,
The friends of today do not love.
To whom shall I speak today?
Hearts are greedy,
Everyone robs his comrade's goods.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Kindness has perished,
Insolence assaults everyone.
To whom shall I speak today ?
One is content with evil,
Goodness is cast to the ground everywhere. To whom shall I speak today?
He who should enrage men by his crimes — He makes everyone laugh at his evildoing. To whom shall I speak today ?
Men plunder,
Everyone robs his comrade.
To whom shall I speak today ?
The criminal is one’s intimate,
The brother with whom one dealt is a foe.
To whom shall I speak today ?
The past is not remembered,
Now one does not help him who helped.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Brothers are mean,
One goes to strangers for affection.
To whom shall I speak today?
Faces are blank,
Everyone turns his face from his brothers.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Hearts are greedy,
No man’s heart can be relied on.
To whom shall I speak today ?
None are righteous,
The land is left to evildoers.
To whom shall I speak today ?
One lacks an intimate,
One resorts to an unknown to complain.
To whom shall I speak today ?
No one is cheerful,
He with whom one walked is no more.
To whom shall I speak today ?
I am burdened with grief
For lack of an intimate.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Wrong roams the earth,
And ends not.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The reason that I can’t find the enemy is that I have yet to look within myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To battle against the heart of my foe is far different than battling against any weapon that they might hold in their hands. And as for my enemy, the same is true for what I hold in mine.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Discrimination knows no allies or foe.”
― Asa Don Brown

“The truth is neither friend nor foe. Rather, it is our decision to embrace it or reject it that makes it one or the other. Therefore, the nature of truth as it relates to us is up to us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have a desire to be saved which I must call immoderate.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Foe

“Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?”
― J.M. Coetzee, Foe

“Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do not build your tomb out of ruins,
(Using) what had been made for what is to be made.
Behold, the king is lord of joy,
You may rest, sleep in your strength,
Follow your heart, through what I have done, There is no foe within your borders.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The foe loves destruction and misery.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The affairs of the people have gone to ruin.
See, all the craftsmen, they do not work,
The land’s foes have despoiled its craftsmen.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Fearlessly face the foe.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Face the foe without any fear.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Fear not the foe.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Our enemy’s good deeds are bad for our mood.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Use of the same word as a joke among friends and its repeated use as an invective are so different. What are friends who cannot hurl absurdities at each other in jest and what is the point in camaraderie if the same word is hurled repeatedly as an innuendo. The intent is the only difference between friend and foe.”
― R. N. Prasher