The Enemy Quotes
Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.
I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.
when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.
In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.
Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.
Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.
