Enemy Quotes
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Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Praise from an enemy smells of craft.
John Milton
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso
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Every man is his own worst enemy.
Queen Christina
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The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.
Ambrose Burnside
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Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.
Alex Tizon
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Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
Walid Muallem
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
Democritus
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These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
Ulrike Meinhof
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If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
Andrew Vachss
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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
