The Enemy Quotes

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.

One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.

Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

Your enemies are people too, and maybe they don't have to be enemies if they're that much like you.

Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.