The Enemy Quotes

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

Every man is his own worst enemy

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.

The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

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.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

The invincible weapon against all our enemies is humility.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Never leave an enemy standing.