Enemy Quotes

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

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

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

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.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

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

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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.

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.