Quotes on Enemy

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

Author: Willie Aames

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Author: Shana Alexander

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Author: Saul Alinsky

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Author: Anacharsis

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

Author: Margaret Anderson

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Author: Francis Assisi

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Author: Francis Bacon

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Author: Douglas Bader

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

Author: Abu Bakr

Our friends, the enemy.

Author: Pierre Beranger

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Author: Pierre Berton

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

Author: James Bovard

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

Author: Ken Buck

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Author: Buddha

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

Author: John Buford

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.

Author: John Buford

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

Author: John Buford

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Author: Edmund Burke

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Author: Richard Burton

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

Author: John Byng

The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.

Author: John Byng

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

Author: John Byng

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.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

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

Author: Chris Chocola

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

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

Author: Emile Cioran

Good is often the enemy of best.

Author: Edwin Cole

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

Author: William Congreve

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Author: Pierre Corneille

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Author: Stanley Crouch

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

Author: George Custer

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

Author: Taylor Dayne

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Author: Demosthenes

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Author: Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

Author: Mari Evans

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Author: Gene Fowler

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Author: Betty Friedan

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

Author: David Hackworth

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Author: Thomas Hardy

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Author: Joseph Heller

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.

Author: Heinrich Himmler

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

Author: Paul Hindenburg

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

Author: Thomas Hobbes

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Author: Eric Hoffer

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Author: Tom Hooper

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

Author: Arthur Inquart

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

Author: Thomas Jackson

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Author: William James

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Author: Roy Jenkins

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

Author: Kato Kaelin

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Author: Helen Keller

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Author: Walt Kelly

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.

Author: Ramman Kenoun

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Author: Neil Kinnock

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

Author: Suge Knight

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Author: Dalai Lama

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

Author: Nick Lampson

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

Author: Sam Levenson

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

Author: Clare Luce

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Author: James Madison

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

Author: Peter Mandelson

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

Author: Ed Markey

I am not an enemy of Adventism.

Author: Walter Martin

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Author: Richard Marx

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Author: Richard Marx

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

Author: John McCain

Moslems are no less an enemy than the Jews.

Author: Tom Metzger

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

Author: Tom Metzger

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Author: Henry Miller

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

Author: Olin Miller

I am not anyone's enemy.

Author: Sun Moon

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

Author: Michael Moore

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

Author: Miyamoto Musashi

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Author: Horatio Nelson

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

Author: Ben Nicholson

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

The press is the enemy.

Author: Richard Nixon

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Author: Joyce Oates

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Author: George Orwell

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Author: Ovid

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Author: Major Owens

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Author: Sarah Palin

We have met the enemy, and they are ours.

Author: Oliver Perry

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Author: Petrarch

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

Author: Marcus Pollio

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Author: Erich Remarque

We need a common enemy to unite us.

Author: Condoleezza Rice

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Author: Manfred Richthofen

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

Author: Knute Rockne

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Author: Mitt Romney

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

Author: Julius Rosenberg

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Author: Dennis Ross

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

Author: Mikhail Saakashvili

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

Author: Morley Safer

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Author: George Savile

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

Author: Brent Scowcroft

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Author: William Shakespeare

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Author: Gerrit Smith

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

Author: Willie Stargell

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

Author: Howard Staunton

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Author: Billy Sunday

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

Author: Anne Swetchine

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Author: Mao Tung

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

Author: Sun Tzu

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Author: Sun Tzu

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Author: Sun Tzu

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

Author: Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Author: Sun Tzu

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Author: Sun Tzu

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Author: Sun Tzu

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Author: Sun Tzu

The best is the enemy of the good.

Author: Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Author: Voltaire

Better is the enemy of good.

Author: Voltaire

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

Author: Denzel Washington

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

Author: Mary Wesley

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

Author: Ron Wood

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

Author: Early Wynn

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

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.

Author: Francis Yockey

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.

Author: John Yoo

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool do from his friends.

Author: Arnold Palmer