Top 100 Enemy's Quotes
#1. Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
John Byng
#2. You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
Miyamoto Musashi
#3. [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#4. Beware when your enemy's too easily defeated.
Toba Beta
#5. Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art.
It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack.
Toba Beta
#6. It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?
James Mattis
#7. Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
Adolf Galland
#8. The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
Vladimir Lenin
#9. Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.
David Bowles
#10. We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy's power, and raised up into newness of life in God.
David Wilkerson
#11. When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#12. That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. ... If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy's best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.
Gene Sharp
#13. The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.
Beth Moore
#14. The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill
#15. Combat doesn't have to be with swords ... Emotions can be deadly weapons, and knowing your enemy's breaking point can be key to winning a battle.
Julie Kagawa
#16. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
Sun Tzu
#17. 15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
Sun Tzu
#18. 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 has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully.
Diana Gabaldon
#19. Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
J. F. C. Fuller
#20. There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs
#21. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
Paul David Tripp
#22. Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#23. Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
Michael O'Donoghue
#24. The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
A.J. Liebling
#25. Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?
Jacob Bronowski
#26. Even better to take a walk in your enemy's shoes. 'Tis the best way to control their footsteps.
A.G. Howard
#27. Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#28. Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.
Winston Churchill
#29. To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
Sun Tzu
#30. I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox,
-Jace
Cassandra Clare
#31. He was loose in his enemy's rear, he was angry, and he was ready to give the bastards a taste of hell on earth.
Bernard Cornwell
#32. They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy's one weakness was your weakness too
Cassandra Clare
#33. As Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "You must be proud of your enemy; then your enemy's successes are also your successes."87 Be proud of your competitors. Just don't follow them.
Eric Schmidt
#34. Attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu
#35. There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#36. But like they say at the Pentagon, you have to plan for the enemy's capacity, not his intentions.
Robert B. Parker
#37. The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
John Wycliffe
#38. An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.
Sophocles
#39. However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
Joe Slovo
#40. One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?
Antoine-Henri Jomini
#41. With my scrip on my back, and my staff in my hand,I'll march on in haste thro' an enemy's land.Though the way may be rough it cannot be long;So I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.
Anonymous
#42. Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
Hafez Al-Assad
#43. I pray moms will use ... [my] book[s] as a reference to arm themselves with God's grace and His Word to break away from the enemy's bondage and begin to experience peace and freedom in their homeschool journeys right away.
Tamara L. Chilver
#45. The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. What does Nietzsche say of fighting men? 'You must have as enemies only those whom you hate, but not those whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy, and then the enemy's success is your success also.
Ernst Junger
#48. Nothing is ever black and white, kitten," he reminded her, allowing his claws to slice out to touch her skin. "I can use my claws to protect, but I can use the same claws to rip out an enemy's throat.
Nalini Singh
#49. First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability.
Sun Tzu
#50. One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, God, what can You do through what I have?
Steven Furtick
#51. Maybe we could do that whole "my enemy's enemy" thing and skip off into the night, holding hands.
Cherie Priest
#52. Had Alexandra ever pressed Jean Louise's vulnerable points with awareness, she could have added another scalp to her belt, but after years of tactical study Jean Louise knew her enemy. Although she could rout her, Jean Louise had not yet learned how to repair the enemy's damage.
Harper Lee
#53. Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#54. He'd know that I think that ... well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.
Meg Cabot
#55. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.
Sun Tzu
#57. Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.
Sun Tzu
#58. Believers infiltrate the enemy's territory with knowledge and power.
Sherry K. White
#59. Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
John Mellencamp
#61. Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
John Buford
#62. You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#63. The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means
and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one
to the attainment of the real objective. The object of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks but to destroy his will.
Liddell Hart
#64. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.
Eric Ludy
#65. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#66. I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.
Pol Pot
#67. And he told Stink about a saint he had tempted a thousand generations ago. Satan had mocked the Enemy's ridiculous claim of omnipotence. "Does God have the power to make a rock so big that he cannot move it?" Satan asked. The saint looked at him. "Yes," he said. "And then He would pick it up.
J. Mulrooney
#68. All that St. Kilda's gloss, that walk through old oak doors like you belong, effortless: I wanted that. I wanted to lick it off my banged-up fists along with my enemy's blood. This
Tana French
#69. My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy's arrogance.
Jessica Knoll
#70. If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.
Curtis LeMay
#71. I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back. Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
Michele Bardsley
#73. Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise.
Stormie O'martian
#74. The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Sun Tzu
#75. The highest form of warfare Is to attack [the enemy's] Strategy itself; The next, To attack [his] Alliances. The next, To attack Armies;
Henry Kissinger
#76. A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.
Chanakya
#77. When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
Oswald Boelcke
#78. Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
James Gleick
#79. Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy's elephants and causing them to trample him to death.
Alan Bradley
#80. Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing.
Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.
Toba Beta
#81. Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
Sun Tzu
#82. 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 him; if twice as numerous,
to divide our army into two.
Sun Tzu
#83. To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy's center of gravity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#84. These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men ...
Sun Tzu
#85. It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best.
Sun Tzu
#86. My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.
Otto Skorzeny
#87. You have given me faith and have grown my faith in Your Word. I don't have faith in my own faith, as if I have accomplished anything myself, but I have faith in You and Your faithfulness to me, which is a shield from the enemy's arrows. Just as You were Abraham's shield
Stormie O'martian
#88. The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful.
Stacey Culpepper
#89. You're not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy's also having a hard time - the only question is who breaks down first.
Rafael Eitan
#90. Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle ... They conquer by strategy.
Sun Tzu
#91. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.
Graham Greene
#94. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies.
Sun Tzu
#95. Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.
Toni Morrison
#96. By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
John Byng
#97. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favourable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted,
C.S. Lewis
#98. I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.
Lynn Austin
#99. There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
Daniel Abraham
#100. While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Aesop
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