Pieter Willem Botha Quotes

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Man is his own worst enemy.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.