Enemy Quotes: Wisdom and Insight on Adversaries and Opposition

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith"

Abraham Kuyper, Theologian

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy"

Ovid, Poet

"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him"

Olin Miller, Writer

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out"

Pierre Berton, Author

"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind"

Voltaire, Writer

"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"A friend is nothing but a known enemy"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it"

Ric Ocasek, Musician

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has"

Martin Luther, Professor

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself"

Thomas Paine, Writer