The Enemy Quotes

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

They say, Keep your enemies closer. But what if you live with them?

Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

The truly civilized man has no enemies.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".

Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he's been fighting against are gone.

Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.

Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.