Enemy Quotes
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Bryant H. McGill
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It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern
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When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
Rupert Murdoch
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Light and lust are deadly enemies.
William Shakespeare
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Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.
Niki Tsongas
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According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.
Serge Daney
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
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The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
H. W. Brands
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I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana Alexander
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That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.
William Gaddis
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When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.
Daryl Davis
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There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.
Lao Tzu
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We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'
Elayne Boosler
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In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
John Abizaid
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By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
Nguyen Cao Ky
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If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
Erik Larson
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I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
Thomas Harris
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The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint
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I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe