The Enemy Quotes

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

What do I feel when I shoot an enemy? Recoil.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.