Top 77 True Enemy Quotes
#1. Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Edward Albert
#2. The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.
Haruki Murakami
#3. That's the true enemy of the future. Ignorance. Indifference. Failure to adapt.
Sophie Littlefield
#4. Mankind's biggest flaw is the fact that he believes that something needs to change in order for him to feel good; it's his biggest hurdle, his largest demon, his one and only true enemy.
D.S. Luca
#5. The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Frans De Waal
#6. To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world's disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments.
Colson Whitehead
#7. Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
Frank Zappa
#10. The self is every person's true enemy.
Ding Ling
#11. Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.
Gore Vidal
#12. Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.
John Marsden
#13. Many have forgotten who our true enemy is. Satan is not playing a game with us. He is playing for keeps. He is out to destroy us.
Ruben Barreto
#15. In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.
Denzel Washington
#16. People need a monster they can believe in.
A true and horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
Albert Pike
#18. I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper Hawkes
Knock it off. -T,C. McQueen
You know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper Hawkes
Stop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
#19. He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
James Howell
#20. A true warrior hits the strongest part of his enemy. A efficient blow can destroy enemies easily.
Srinivas Shenoy
#21. True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.
Morihei Ueshiba
#22. Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.
Dalai Lama
#24. There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#25. But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles
#26. True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.
Elie Wiesel
#27. A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
John Bartholomew Gough
#28. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#29. What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.
George F. R. Ellis
#30. The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).
Martin Buber
#31. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#32. We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
Sarah Palin
#33. I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.
Jon Foreman
#34. Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
Dwight L. Moody
#35. The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
Mitch Daniels
#36. True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#37. If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
Mother Teresa
#38. In the next four years, President Bush will continue to keep America safe, our enemies on the run, and our economic progress moving forward. Texas is the home of our President, and we will make sure that is true for another four years.
Henry Bonilla
#39. For true names in the mouth of an enemy have power.
Kate Danley
#40. He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
Abraham Lincoln
#41. Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.
Mother Teresa
#42. Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
Henri Nouwen
#43. If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.
Neal A. Maxwell
#44. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.
Sun Tzu
#45. The prophet Micah preached to his downtrodden people: Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen [true, not to be minimized], I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. (7:8 NIV)
Louie Giglio
#46. Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
John Arbuthnot
#47. 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
#48. While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
Kara Swisher
#49. The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself.
Dan Groat
#50. It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Criss Jami
#51. Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
Vanna Bonta
#52. There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior - the best warrior - isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that?
Erin Hunter
#53. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Someone who tells you exactly what they think of you isn't necessarily and enemy.
Mac Fletcher: "Gates of Dawn" (in progress)
Mac Fletcher
#55. 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
#56. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Joyce Rachelle
#57. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.
Clive Barker
#58. A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie? Blinking,
Steven Erikson
#59. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
#60. I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown
#61. I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.
Joe Johnston
#62. 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
#63. Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.
Patrick Demarchelier
#64. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
Jodi Picoult
#66. You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
Elie Wiesel
#67. He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.
Amber Smith
#68. The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.
Stonewall Jackson
#70. The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely - which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
Sydney J. Harris
#71. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
#72. I think you assume everyone is going to be your enemy. And by doing that, you sort of make it come true.
Jeff Garvin
#73. Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true.
M.F. Moonzajer
#74. The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#75. Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.
Debasish Mridha
#76. The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.
James O. Fraser
#77. Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.
Vanna Bonta
