The Enemy Quotes

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

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

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

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

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.

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

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

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

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

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

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.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

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.

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

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

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.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.