Enemy Quotations | Page 4

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.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

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

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

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

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

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

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

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

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

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

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

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.

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

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

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

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

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

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

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

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

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

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.