Enemy Quotes

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

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.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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.

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.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The best is the enemy of the good.

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

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

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

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

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

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

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

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

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

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

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.