Enemy Quotes
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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Assata Shakur
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Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.
Jimmy Doolittle
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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Bill Vaughan
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An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.
Eugene Ionesco
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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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Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Betty Friedan
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The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.
Enver Hoxha
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Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
Haile Selassie
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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 virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.
Leos Carax
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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 was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
Benjamin Butler
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And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
Lennart Nilsson
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When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.
Baltasar Gracian
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
Alexandre Dumas
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
Paddy Ashdown
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We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.
Kevin McCarthy
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Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
Kevin McCarthy
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'We have a problem, sir.''What do you mean, a problem?' demanded the Admiral. 'We’re not supposed to have problems-that’s the enemy’s job!'
Charles Stross
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Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.
H. L. Mencken
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The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
William Walker
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Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.
C. S. Lewis
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Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.
R.J. Rushdoony