Enemy Quotes
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
Terence McKenna
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If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory
Carlson Gracie
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The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.
William Stringfellow
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Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
Chris Johnson
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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
Eugen Kogon
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky
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Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement... In every season of life...we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it's not comfortable). We need to refuse to be satisfied with our latest accomplishments, as what we've accomplished is no longer our potential because it has been realized.
Christine Caine
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When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.
Daryl Davis
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Tertullian
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History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.
Stephen Fry
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
Carolyn Wells
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In the military, when the enemy turned on the enemy, they called it “red on red.” Soldiers didn’t have to pretend to be sad about it.
Edward Conlon
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And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.
William Jennings Bryan
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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
Steve Earle
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Sometimes we make a mistake. Don't treat us as the enemy.
Sun Yang
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah Arendt
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The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
Charles A. Murray
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
Stephen Tobolowsky
