Enemy Quotes
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
Plutarch
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Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
Alan Huffman
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Praise from an enemy smells of craft.
John Milton
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Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.
David Brin
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The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
Elliott Abrams
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For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.
Liz Cheney
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
Brian Tracy
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Now I saw braves hang themselves with amulets, leave tidbits for spirits, and still take an arrow in the neck. I, worshiping nothing and bribing nothing with prayers, rode among an enemy unscathed, scything them like summer wheat.
Tanith Lee
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There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
Akhmad Kadyrov
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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.
Douglas Haig
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The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy - communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist.
William Blum
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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney
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God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
S. D Gordon
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We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
Cofer Black
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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
Breyten Breytenbach
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Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.
Charles Chiniquy
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The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
P. G. T. Beauregard
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
Cormac McCarthy
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I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
Deborah Tannen