Enemy Quotes · Page 93

“If you think you don't have enemies, then they have won.”

— Toba Beta

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

— Hermann Goring

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

— Terry Pratchett

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its…

— Abraham Flexner

“The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy.”

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

— Miyamoto Musashi

“A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.”

— Basma Salem

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what…

— Thomas Jefferson

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to…

— Anonymous

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

— Saadi

“Storm is not your enemy; it does not even know whether you are there! Your enemy is your unpreparedness for it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it…

— Erich Hartmann

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting…

— Sun Tzu

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from…

— Anonymous

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The…

— Peter Kreeft

When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step…

— Jeff Corwin

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind…

— Sakyong Mipham

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was…

— Eskinder Nega

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures…

— J. G. Ballard

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In…

— Evgeny Morozov

If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people…

— James Fallows

Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so…

— Russ Feingold

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life.…

— Phil McGraw

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

— Philippa Gregory

When the ball is snapped I want to tackle the other guy, the other team is my enemy.

— Brian Urlacher

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

— Gene Fowler

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

— Dorothy Parker

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

— Jose Mourinho

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

— Robert Jordan

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

— Sun Tzu

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

— Sun Tzu

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

— Alex Berenson

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

— Nelly Mazloum

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

— Guy de Maupassant

“Your enemy is most humbled when he finds out that the person that he looks up to … looks up to you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

— Emily Dickinson