Enemy Quotes
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The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Natalie Angier -
The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
Michael Moorcock
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Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.
George S. Patton -
From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.
Hal Moore -
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
Diane Ackerman -
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury -
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown -
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
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It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Saskya Pandita -
A common enemy is not necessarily a reliable basis for friendship.
Brandon Mull -
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
Moliere -
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
Thomas More -
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
Susan Faludi
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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
Chris Bradford -
The enemy just hates our prayers.
Francis Chan -
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky -
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.
Eugene Delacroix -
Know the enemy and you will know how to kill him.
Conn Iggulden
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If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.
Cass McCombs -
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
Eric Holder -
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
William Gurnall -
You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.
Paul Hoffman