The Enemy Is Within Quotes

#1. If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Arthur Miller

#4. The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

Bryant McGill

#5. Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#6. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

Dalai Lama

#7. Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?

G.S. Jennsen

#8. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Winston S. Churchill

#9. American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

Pat Buchanan

#10. Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.

Steven Pressfield

#11. If there is no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm.

Eric Thomas

#12. Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Adolf Hitler

#13. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Anita Diamant

#14. We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

#15. The greatest enemy we can face is ourselves, and the greatest battle is against the darkness within.

Derek Landy

#16. A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.

Theodore H. White

#17. Each of us is the enemy [ ... ] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.

Frank Herbert

#18. We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

Pope Francis

#19. The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

Roger Zelazny

#20. There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#21. Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason ... Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.

Ann Coulter

#22. Man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves. Hell is the burning fever that makes you feel cold.

Elie Wiesel

#23. Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you;

Steven Erikson

#24. The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance.

Roger Scruton

#25. A real politician, and these were real politicians, never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy within.

Guy Endore

#26. I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware ... Beware ...

Anne Sexton

#27. The world is in an eternal struggle against good and evil," he would say to me. "But the most important war is fought here." Ilyas would tap his chest. "It is not the barbarians, nor even the Druj, that we must fear the most, Nazafareen. It is the enemy within." I

Kat Ross

#28. The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

Stephen Jay Gould

#29. Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Ernest Jones

#30. Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Adolf Hitler

#31. Salvation for our educational ills ... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Seymour Sarason

#32. Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the "enemy within" is a far worse hazard to a law officers health and wellbeing.

Steve Neal

#33. Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

T.F. Hodge

#34. A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

Bill Vaughan

#36. The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn