Enemy Quotes

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

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.

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

I am not an enemy of Adventism.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

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