Enemy Quotes

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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

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.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

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?

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the 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.

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

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

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

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

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

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Each murder is one too many.

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

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

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our 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.

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

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.

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

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

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

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.

All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

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

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

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

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.

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

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

I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

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

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

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

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.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.