Enemy Quotes

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.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

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

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

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 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.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.