Among The Enemy Quotes

#1. A clever general ... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

Sun Tzu

#2. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me

Haruki Murakami

#3. Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

Sun Tzu

#4. If mankind is to have a new beginning among the stars, it will not come cheaply, for we are our own enemy and bring our demons with us as we have done throughout history.

Jay Allan

#5. Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

James Madison

#6. While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Where do we find allies?"
Father Yarvi smiled. "Among our enemies, where else?

Joe Abercrombie

#8. Man sows good wheat seed in his field, but later finds that an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat. When the workers ask if they should pull the weeds out, the farmer tells them to allow both wheat and weeds to grow until the time of the harvest, when the two can be more easily separated.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#9. I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

Buffalo Bill

#10. There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#11. The enemy of my enemy may not yet be my friend, indeed it may never be my friend, but it is, at least, if not less of an enemy, then no longer among my most important enemies.

Joseph Micallef

#12. But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Sophocles

#13. I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#14. The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

William Stringfellow

#15. "There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

Paul Rusesabagina

#16. It was wrong, this weighing and measuring lives as though they were coins that could be spent or saved. He longed to be free of it all, to live among men seeing everyone as his brother, to view no one as his enemy.

Kiersten White

#17. I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers

Albert Parsons

#18. Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

Watchman Nee

#19. May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

Marquis De Lafayette

#20. Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#21. My creativity isn't rooted in confidence. It grows from many things, no doubt, but chief among them is a deep, rebellious, and indeed almost hostile stance toward complacency- about anything. It feels like the enemy. And certainty? It closes doors. Ends discussions. Shuts other people out.

Robin Black

#22. There in the hospital Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in times of war: he was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he is interesting to hear and see.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

Archilochus

#24. I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

#25. Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.

Joseph Addison

#26. Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt.

Rabih Alameddine

#27. Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Otto Weininger

#28. Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#29. It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

Haruki Murakami

#30. A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?

Plutarch

#31. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman