A Quote by David Foster Wallace

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

David Foster Wallace

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Brings Common Common Enemy Enemy Like Nothing Together

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David Foster Wallace
American - Writer
February 21, 1962 - December 12, 2008

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy - the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.

Malcolm X

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

D. A. Carson

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

Harvey Fierstein

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

Harvey Fierstein

I refuse to believe this rhetoric that the Labour party can't get under one big umbrella with a common enemy - sometimes a common enemy is an absolutely delightful unifier.

Jess Phillips

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

Billy Higgins

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

Aurelio Peccei

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

Jim Butcher

I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.

Alexander Ovechkin

The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.