Enemy Quotes: Wisdom and Insight on Adversaries and Opposition (Page 4)

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death "

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"

James Madison, President

"New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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

"You have learned a great deal — first of all: how to kill the enemy"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"The biggest enemy of creativity is self-doubt"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"Good is often the enemy of best"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy"

Henry Villard, Journalist

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