Enemy Quotes

• When American troops find themselves fighting for their lives, there is no better sound than an A-10 - a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog - firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.

  

  Martha McSally
  • American
  • Fighting
  • Gun

• Remember, the enemy comes to kill still and destroy. But now they're going to inspect themselves? Oh, what could go wrong with that? Yes, don't call us. We'll call you, they say. And that's really good because Barack Obama is standing by with his mighty phone and his mighty pen in case they stretch the truth a little. And they start dropping bombs.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Remember
  • Bombs
  • Pens

• Age is not an enemy to me.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Age
  • Enemy

• If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • Nature
  • Friend

• Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Enemy

• 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
  • Enemy
  • Yourself
  • Destroy

• Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

  

  Alfred Adler
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Preparing

• I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

  

  Louis Bonaparte
  • Country
  • Law
  • Enemy

• If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • World
  • God
  • America

• The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Liberty
  • Force
  • Destroy

• A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Friends
  • Peace
  • Deals

• The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

  

  Frank Church
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Wise

• Time can be an enemy or a friend.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Law

• Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Doubt
  • Enemy

• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  

  Evo Morales
  • World
  • Reality
  • Health

• Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Bridge
  • Cervantes
  • Advises

• The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Done
  • War
  • Improvement

• I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Fun

• Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.

  

  James Mattis
  • Enemy

• In my view, targeted lethal force is at its least controversial when it is on its strongest, most traditional legal foundation. The essential mission of the U.S. military is to capture or kill an enemy. Armies have been doing this for thousands of years. As part of a congressionally authorized armed conflict, the foundation is even stronger.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Military
  • Enemy

• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Enemy
  • Good Taste
  • Creativeness

• A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Should
  • Office
  • Fellows

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