The Enemy Quotes

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.

Time is the enemy of freedom.

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.