Common enemy Quote by Jodi Picoult

“the way to pull a divided group together is to give them a common enemy.”

— Jodi Picoult

“By discovering the enemy’s dispositions and remaining invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated, while the enemy’s must be divided.”

— Sun Tzu

“If his forces are united, separate them.”

— Sun Tzu

“take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to…

— Robert M. Gates

“To raise an army you need a common enemy”

— Iyathurai Aingaratheepan

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting…

— John Mearsheimer

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

— Rudyard Kipling

“It wasn’t just ‘divide and conquer,’” said Kazikhanov. “It was ‘divide, conquer, and tie up in trouble.”

— Andrew Meier

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack…

— Sun Tzu

“These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser.…

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The uncompromising pride of the Third Reich had been broken by the world-wide collaboration of people not avid of conquest, but of freedom.”

— Miklós Nyiszli