Top 100 The Enemy Quotes
#1. When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.
Warren Buffett
#4. Perfect is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
#5. Whoever God loves, satan hates; whoever God blesses, satan tries to curse. I believe, without a doubt, that the enemy tries to get to God through us - his children and the apples of His eye.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#7. A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.
Alexander Suvorov
#8. We're losing hope in the idea of trying to convince the American people to pay attention to something that matters. To some extent we are all the enemy, all of us have failed.
Barrett Brown
#9. Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, Go home.
Charles Frazier
#10. We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.
Christine Caine
#11. But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had been morally conquered by the enemy.
David McReynolds
#13. 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
#14. When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
Susan Faludi
#15. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
Sun Tzu
#16. Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
Rajneesh
#18. Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
#19. War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
#20. It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
John Jay Chapman
#22. And what's the irony?
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In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?
Deyth Banger
#24. Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.
Michael Ondaatje
#25. 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
#26. Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.
Ron Paul
#27. 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
#28. Five houses?" Lothaire had sneered, cutting Trehan off. "You all live under one roof now. Mine. Because I'm the king of the castle." Then his red eyes had grown vacant, and he'd begun muttering about "Lizvetta's lingerie."
Trehan had been ... underwhelmed by the Enemy of Old's attention span.
Kresley Cole
#29. If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?
Stormie O'martian
#30. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles
#31. Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.
Deepak Chopra
#32. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.
George Friedman
#33. 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
#35. The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have.
T.D. Jakes
#36. Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.
John Jakes
#37. If we are to conquer the enemy and claim our inheritance in Christ, we must have spiritual strength and spiritual courage.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#38. To seek the fulfillment of ourselves in God - that is, to seek only the blessings and refreshing of God, but not seek God for himself - this type of spirituality is the enemy of the cross of Christ. - ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS
Michael Brown
#39. Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
Mao Zedong
#40. If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
Joyce Meyer
#41. And the New Republic or the New-New Republic or the Republic We Got This Week will clamp down hard and then those people with the so-called better way will become the brave rebel alliance and the Republic will become the enemy and the wheel will turn once more.
Chuck Wendig
#42. 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
#43. The trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.
Gordon R. Dickson
#44. Doors and corners are always dangerous, because you're moving into something without being sure what's there. By the time you see the enemy, you're exposed to them." "Sir?" Havelock
James S.A. Corey
#45. If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.
Sam Keen
#46. All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods
Gregory Benford
#47. A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Anonymous
#49. I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.
Mark Cuban
#50. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Saul Alinsky
#51. Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Ann Bridge
#52. They have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within.
E. M. Forster
#53. Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
Sarah West
#56. It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#57. We are in a battle this side of heaven, there's no doubt about it. But in the midst of that battl the church has to realize that people are not the enemy; people are the prize.
Britt Merrick
#58. Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.
Betty Williams
#59. When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.
John McAfee
#61. It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy
Edward Gibbon
#62. The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
Thornton Wilder
#63. He however knows when the enemy is stronger.
Paulo Coelho
#64. 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
#65. People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
B.R. Ambedkar
#66. I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.
Lily Allen
#67. I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of his, and his smile. "Ah," he said. "At long last, a promotion.
Judy Blundell
#68. Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.
Beth Moore
#69. We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
Charles Kettering
#70. Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#71. She didn't get angry with anyone, because that would mean having to react, having to do battle with the enemy and then having to face unforeseen consequences, such as vengeance.
Paulo Coelho
#72. My revolution is a one-man revolution and almost everybody is the enemy. I may not be doing a great deal of damage, but at least I'm not bullshitting.
Charles Bukowski
#73. We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
John Buford
#74. Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend
Munia Khan
#75. Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn't been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.
Rick Riordan
#76. It's the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.
Somi Ekhasomhi
#78. When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
Joel Osteen
#79. Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.
Stuart Kauffman
#81. Never interrupt the enemy while he's in the process of making mistake
Ashwin Sanghi
#82. Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
Norman Cousins
#83. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Don't fear the enemy that attack you but the fake friend that hugs you
Obameso Sunkanmi
#86. Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.
John Cassian
#87. General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
Ambrose Bierce
#88. You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.
Deborah Ellis
#89. Arthur!' I cried, but my voice was lost in the battle roar. The seething waters of the enemy host closed over the place where he had been.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#90. The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#91. I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.
K.P. Yohannan
#92. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.
George W. Bush
#94. Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother's back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn't any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape.
Mindy McGinnis
#95. In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Eddie Rickenbacker
#96. A single blow must destroy the enemy ... without regard of losses ... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
Adolf Hitler
#97. We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a clique.
C.S. Lewis
#98. We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.
Daniel Henderson
#99. 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
#100. Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.
Auliq Ice
