Enemy Quotes

"No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"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

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection"

Jean Paul, Author

"If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"A friend is nothing but a known enemy"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race"

Henry Miller, Writer

"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself"

Henry Miller, Writer

"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy"

Ron Wood, Musician

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion"

Douglas Bader, Soldier

"There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age"

Orson Welles, Actor

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"

Orson Welles, Actor

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me"

William Congreve, Poet

"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault"

Paul von Hindenburg, President

"The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing"

John Bigelow, Lawyer

"Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy"

Rick Allen, Musician

"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly"

Antisthenes, Philosopher

"We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason"

John Astin, Actor

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