Enemy Quotes

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

I am not an enemy of Adventism.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

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

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

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

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.