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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

John Irving, American Novelist

Enemy, Enemies, Reason, Want

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Enemy, Enemies, Man

"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Enemy, Enemies, Existence, Struggle

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Enemy, Enemies, Gifts

"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, British Author

Enemy, Insincerity, Language, Words

"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten."

Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Soldier

Enemy, Man, Military, Pride

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"One never really knows who one's enemy is."

Jurgen Habermas, German Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Saul Alinsky

"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

Change

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

Power

"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in."

Life

"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it."

Belief

"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."

Life

"History is a relay of revolutions."

History

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

Power

"A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family."

Family

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Enemy