Enemy Quotes

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Time is my greatest enemy.

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

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

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

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.