Enemy Quotes

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.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

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

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Better is the enemy of good.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.