Enemy Quotes
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We have met the enemy and he is us. (Quote by - Walt Kelly)
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. (Quote by - Stephen Hawking)
Time, the cradle of hope. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. (Quote by - Lord Halifax)
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
A flatterer is a secret enemy. (Quote by - Hungarian Proverb)
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. (Quote by - Frank B. Shutts)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
Fear is the image of weakness, (fear is) comrade of timidity,the enemy of steadfastness/determination. Fear of death is the cause of every human fear. Who conquers this fear of death,conquers over himself. This person also reaches liberation from the prison of his mind. (Quote by - Pirapakaran)
When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
Art hath an enemy called ignorance (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, ' I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' (Quote by - Duke Of Wellington)
No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. (Quote by - Norman Podhoretz)
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make you timid. [Philosophy of life for a monarch] (Quote by - Frederick II)
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. (Quote by - Louis A. Berman)
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy. (Quote by - Hesiod)
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not (Quote by - David Seabury)
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. (Quote by - Galbraith)
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy (Quote by - William Learned Marcy)
A cold wind blew off Hanging Dog Mountain and I had no fire, nor dared I strike so much as a spark that might betray my hiding place. Somewhere near, an enemy lurked, waiting (Quote by - Louise L'amour)
Mr Roth has two ways out, apologise or it goes to court [on being called the enemy of football] (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies. (Quote by - Don Piatt)
He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. (Quote by - Arthur James Balfour)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We can't accept that one of our best referees has been forced to quit because of this - people like Mourinho are the enemy of football. (Quote by - Volker Roth)
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. (Quote by - O. A. Battista)
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
Friends are just enemies that don't have the guts to kill you. (Quote by - Judy Tenuda)
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win (Quote by - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev)
I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law. (Quote by - Louis Bonaparte)
Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. (Quote by - Vellupillai Pirapakaran)
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Security is the chief enemy of mortals. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. (Quote by - Al Gore)
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother. (Quote by - Claudette Colbert)
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. (Quote by - Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi)
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again (Quote by - Jack Handey)
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession (Quote by - George Washington)
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. (Quote by - Spike Milligan)
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse. (Quote by - Nicholas Breton)
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy. (Quote by - Daniel O'Connell)
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them. (Quote by - Frederick The Great)
Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. (Quote by - Allan Jenkins)
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. (Quote by - Aristotle)
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. (Quote by - Petrarch)
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy (Quote by - George Santayana)
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends—they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! (Quote by - Warren G. Harding)
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. (Quote by - Stanley Baldwin)
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. (Quote by - Moshe Dayan)
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. (Quote by - J. August Strindberg)
Whereas in The Two Towers you have different races, nations, cultures coming together and examining their conscience and unifying against a very real and terrifying enemy. What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy. (Quote by - Viggo Mortensen)
The enemy could not have got a handful of men, through the cross-fire. (Quote by - John Bigelow)
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success (Quote by - Erwin Rommel)
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Fear is the outcome of weakness, a coward's friend, an enemy of firmness. Fear of death is the cause of all human fears. One who wins the fear of death wins himself. He is the one who wins the freedom. From his mental prison. (Quote by - V.Prabhakaran.)
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy (Quote by - German Proverb)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. (Quote by - Thomas Jones)
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks (Quote by - Eskimo Proverb)
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. (Quote by - Aesop)
It [racism] is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. (Quote by - Pierre Berton)
As regards Providence, he cannot shake off the prejudice that in war, God is on the side of the big battalions, which at present are in the enemy's camp (Quote by - Eduard Zeller)
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Man is his own worst enemy. (Quote by - Cicero)
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him? (Quote by - William Gillette)
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies,private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. (Quote by - J P Getty)
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me (Quote by - Aldo Leopold)
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends. (Quote by - Henry R. Luce)
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. (Quote by - Claude Arien Helvetius)
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue (Quote by - Mark Twain)
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love (Quote by - Johann Lavater)
If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)
Action is worry's worst enemy. (Quote by - Proverb)
Reason is the enemy of faith. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
On the set of movie "Enemy At The Gates": "There was dirt under your nails and in your ears and up yer bum - we got into it." (Quote by - Rachel Weisz)
Ego is the biggest enemy of humans. (Quote by - Rig Veda)
He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude (Quote by - Aristotle)
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. (Quote by - Buddha)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend (Quote by - Hebrew Proverb)
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. (Quote by - Frank Herbert)
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Do not allow a chance to the enemy. Continue to fight until final victory' (Quote by - Luigi Longo)
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Terrorism is in good part an effect of government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy (Quote by - Mark Poster)
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. (Quote by - William Blake)
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being, (Quote by - John Updike, Odd Jobs)
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. - Maxims (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
To identify the enemy is to free the mind. (Quote by - Mari Evans)
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
An enemy makes a true friends value apparent. (Quote by - David Howell)
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies (Quote by - W. L. George)
Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time. (Quote by - Norman Schwarzkopf)
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy (Quote by - French Proverb)
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action (Quote by - Ian Fleming)
Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. (Quote by - Kerouac Jack)
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Quote by - Sally Kempton)
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. (Quote by - Yassir Arafat)
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute -- often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is (Quote by - Charley Reese)
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy. (Quote by - Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein)
Facts are the enemy of truth. (Quote by - Don Quixote)
Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends-those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?-now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail-if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
There's nothing better than an Ashes series. It's the old enemy and we are playing in the home of cricket where it all began. It's a highlight of everyone's involvement with Australian cricket. (Quote by - John Buchanan)
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. (Quote by - Anne Swetchine)
It is good to be taught even by an enemy (Quote by - Ovid)
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. (Quote by - Tzu-Sun)
There is no little enemy. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. (Quote by - African Proverb)
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr)
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. (Quote by - Sylvia Plath)
To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. (Quote by - William R. Alger)
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
