The Enemy Quotes

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

She needs someone who will be everything for her: her friend, her boyfriend, her confidant, her lover and sometimes even her enemy.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.