A Quote by T.C. Boyle

To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.

T.C. Boyle

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Earth Enemy Friend Man

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T.C. Boyle
American - Novelist
Born: December 2, 1948

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Saadi

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

Holly Black

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Anthony Trollope

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Meister Eckhart

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

Mike Tyson

Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.

Josip Broz Tito

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

Mike Tyson

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Gilbert Parker

Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

Andrew Jackson Davis

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.

Tom Robbins

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

Amir Taheri

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Joseph Addison

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.