Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.

You don’t want to humiliate your enemy—your adversary.

Dislike is what creates rivalries.

People naturally want to see two interesting people - one that they're predisposed possibly to like and one that they're predisposed to dislike - have a fight and see who wins.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

All my enemies are self-appointed.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

I hate competition.

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

We have rivals, implacable rivals who constantly oppose the influence which we already exert. They strive to frustrate us in every way possible.

All men work more zealously against their enemies than they cooperate with their friends.

American and Chinese civilizations are antagonistic; they cannot live and thrive and both survive on the same soil. One or the other must perish.

There is no little enemy.

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

This is a big game, and there are a lot of haters in the game. But don't hate me, hate the game.