Enemy Quotations | Page 6

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

Good is often the enemy of best.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

Have a great day. Note: does not apply to my enemies.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about it. Automatic deductions are a wonderful thing. But ideally, you should wait until the end of the month, you can see how much extra money you had, and you should put that in your savings account. We don't do that too well, and if we did that, we would never save. So, what we do, is we take money out of our pocket into the saving account at the beginning of the month, take it outside of our control and as a consequence, we spend less and we save more.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

I think the worst enemy for success is the anxiousness to get it.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

We desensitized the enemy to the formations they saw on the night we attacked,

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's become a liability. He's become a weapon our enemies will use against us.

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

The only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad,

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

If there is no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

We have positively identified up to 50 to 60 of enemy killed, which we have personally seen, and many of the bodies have been recovered and returned back to Pakistan.

The fact of the matter is that you can protect people to a certain extent, but you always come up with a bigger bomb. We just need to continually hone our skills ... so that we don't set a pattern that the enemy can exploit.

There is no doubt it is all related, ... The enemy will try a second time and a third time.

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Fretting grief the enemy of life.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it!

Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!" There was a brief pause. "In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us!

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country, where we continue to face former regime loyalists, criminals and foreign terrorists,

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

We've suffered a tremendous loss. Spencer was more than a kind person. He never had an enemy and was an exceptional brother, father, husband and son.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.