Enemy Quotes
-
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
-
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.
-
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
-
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
-
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.
-
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
-
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.
-
All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.
-
When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"
-
Free time is the enemy of progress. Because free time. Sitting around. Is not doing.
-
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
-
After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
-
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
-
I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
-
... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.
-
The enemy is always in the mind.
-
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
-
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.
-
Consider an enemy may become a friend.
-
Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.
-
[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.
-
An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
-
Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.
-
As many servants so many enemies.
