No Enemy Quotes

#1. I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Louise Mensch

#2. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#3. Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want
Skulduggery: A winning sense of style?

Derek Landy

#4. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.

Tracy Banghart

#5. Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Edward Abbey

#6. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

Douglas MacArthur

#7. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

#8. I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Douglas MacArthur

#9. It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!

John Hagee

#10. A war was coming. No, it had already started. Vampires versus demons. Demons versus wolves. The enemy of my enemy ... Is my husband.

Cynthia Eden

#11. Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

George Eliot

#12. The fatal historical mistake of liberalism is to see no enemy on the left, to consider that the enemy is always on the right.

Anonymous

#13. Don't fight fair; don't worry what you look like," Joshua continued. "Do whatever you have to do to stop our enemy, no holds barred."
"Like a sale at Loehmann's," Brynne said.

Cate Tiernan

#14. If you have no enemies, you have no character.

Paul Newman

#15. There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man.

Michael Lewis

#16. The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#17. To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

Henry Rollins

#18. I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Gerald R. Ford

#19. No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest.

Sulla

#20. Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Breyten Breytenbach

#21. The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we'll ruin the one we have.

Beth Moore

#22. A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

Lysander Spooner

#23. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

H.L. Mencken

#24. We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

George W. Bush

#25. Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

John Dryden

#26. If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#28. The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

Roald Dahl

#29. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy

Don Darkes

#31. No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

#32. Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

Vince Staples

#33. If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight

Sidney Sheldon

#35. No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

George Lopez

#36. The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

Peter Schiff

#37. Is it not enough to know that they are servants of the Enemy?" answered Gildor. "Flee them! Speak no words to them! They are deadly.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

Walter Lippmann

#39. And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Steven J. Carroll

#40. If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world.

Debasish Mridha

#41. People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

Marco Rubio

#42. When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#43. Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Honore De Balzac

#44. We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

Margaret J. Wheatley

#45. Your mind is the most powerful wonder. It can be your greatest enemy or your closest ally.
There are no limits to what you can achieve if only you believe.

Michelle Horst

#46. We get back pretty well. There is no further attack by the enemy. We lie for an hour panting and resting before anyone speaks. We are so completely played out that in spite of our great hunger we do not think of the provisions. Then gradually we become something like men again.

Erich Maria Remarque

#47. Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#48. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

George Soros

#49. The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

Franz Halder

#50. No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#51. Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

Kenneth Patchen

#52. Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger.

Dalai Lama XIV

#53. No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

#54. In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Desmond Tutu

#55. There's no soldier don't have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that's just a fact.

Sebastian Barry

#56. Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all ... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal ... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

Megan Whalen Turner

#57. History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#58. The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

Fidel Castro

#59. The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains.
Doroga

Jim Butcher

#60. A man has no worse enemy than himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#61. There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#62. When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

Henry B. Eyring

#63. There is no greater enemy of virtue than a charming Welshman.

Lisa Kleypas

#64. Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.

Ernest Gaines

#65. It was his own soul he was exploring, the one territory from which there was no escape, the one enemy which must always be faced, sooner or later, more certain than anything else in life or death.

Anne Perry

#66. Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#67. Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

Sun Tzu

#68. Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

Bill Shuster

#69. Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

Gautama Buddha

#70. Mine to you. Yours to me. Bonded by blood, by spirit and by soul, we are one. No distance too far, no enemy too powerful, no sacrifice too great. I will always find you. I will always protect you. No matter what the cost. I am yours and you are mine.
- Elijah

Stephanie Rowe

#71. The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in our own victimhood, we no longer feel bound by moral considerations in becoming perpetrators.

Julie Mertus

#72. In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.

Morihei Ueshiba

#73. No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

Sulla

#74. Was there no hope for men? They killed those they should have loved. What good was it to fight, what good was it to win, if there was no difference between ally and enemy? What was victory? Meaningless.

Brandon Sanderson

#75. No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Gregory Maguire

#76. Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#77. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

Brad Thor

#78. Laughter is no enemy to learning

Walt Disney

#79. Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#80. I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Douglas MacArthur

#81. I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

Theognis

#82. Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Bryant H. McGill

#83. If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

Denis Leary

#84. The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#85. You have no enemy except yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#86. Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death.

Sun Tzu

#87. He's probably their battle poet, too."
"You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?"
"No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy ... When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

Terry Pratchett

#88. Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.

Wilfred Owen

#89. All are my friends. I have no enemies.

Mahavira

#90. The truly civilized man has no enemies.

Charles Fletcher Dole

#91. The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#92. Great and small, minister and people, all must wrestle; not one part of Christ's army in the field, and the other at ease in their quarters, where no enemy comes. Here

William Gurnall

#93. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Mark Twain

#94. Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

George Herbert

#95. I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

Zachary Taylor

#96. If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.

John Kehoe

#97. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

#98. Music is playing. We will, we will rock you. But no one will be rocked here. There will be no revolution. People are too comfortable, and comfort is the revolutionaries' worst enemy.

Eric Weiner

#99. All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun Tzu

#100. As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.

Carl Von Clausewitz