The Enemy Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.

Better is the enemy of good.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Be where your enemy is not.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.