Enemy Quotes
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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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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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I am by nature and inclination a peaceful man, the sworn enemy to disputes, lawsuits and quarrels both public and private.
Peter Paul Rubens
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We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.
John Chrysostom
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...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
Brian Tracy
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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney
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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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I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.
James Mattis
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The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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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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Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.
C. S. Lewis
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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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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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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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Vladimir Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
George Osborne
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
George Horace Lorimer
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Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel
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The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.
Vladimir Lenin
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King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
Plutarch