The Enemy Quotes

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.

Our own government has become our enemy.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

A weak invention of the Enemy.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

If you aren’t really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

Good is often the enemy of best.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.