The Enemy Quotes

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

How I exist in this world is that you're in or you're out. You are family or you are the enemy.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.