Enemy Quote by Quentin Crisp

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a…

— Tzvetan Todorov

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

— Robert Baer

“Essentally combat is an expression of hostile feelings. But in the large-scale combat that we call war hostile feelings often have become merely hostile…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“A threat leads to nothing if it is not accepted. In fighting the good fight, you should never forget that. Just as you should…

— Paulo coelho

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a…

— Chris Cleave

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

— Nelson Mandela

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

— Primo Levi

Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain…

— Sun Tzu

“A conflict, in and of its self, is not destructive. It’s the lack of effective conflict resolution (along with conflict avoidance) that causes impasses…

— Kim Wilkerson

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

— Ludwig von Mises