The Enemy Quotes

Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.