The Enemy Quotes

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

Enemies are an indication of character.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.

Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term.

Learn to recognize and combat the enemies of potential.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

Never do your enemy a minor injury.

For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.