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Quotes About Enemy

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul. He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon. He is my beloved.
~ Gillian Shields
Unlike the traditional paradigm of warfare, in which the military object is the destruction of enemy battalions, divisions, and corps, in the paradigm of irregular warfare the security objective is the population itself.
~ Gordon Chang
the trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
An enemy, perhaps. Ah, so simple. Liane will kill you ten men. Two steps forward, thrust — thus!" He lunged. "And souls go thrilling up like bubbles in a beaker of mead.
~ Jack Vance
Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
~ Jack Weatherford
The enemy of fear is not courage," Jahno translated for her. "The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.
~ Jacqueline Carey
The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.
~ Jacqueline Carey
My conscience commands me to love an enemy and not harm him, to avoid adding new causes for separation; it tells me that I ought to be an example of moderation and mildness for my enemy; perhaps through my actions, I might encourage him to do the same, and then at last may God send us the dear desired peace."8 For
~ James A. Connor
The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.
~ James A. Owen
To be liberated from the stigma of blackness by embracing it is to cease, forever, one's interior argument and collaboration with the authors of one's degradation. It abruptly reduces the white enemy to a contest merely physical, which he can win only physically.
~ James Baldwin
It is a terrible omen when you see an American flag on somebody else's car and realize that's your enemy.
~ James Baldwin
There are four basic types of mission to choose from: Targeting Common Enemy Role Model Internal Transformation.
~ James C. Collins
The meeting of the Council after the gai-jin had departed, for once, had been happy and filled with laughter at the enemy's loss of face
~ James Clavell
Yabu-san's a violent man with no scruples whatsoever. He honors nothing but his own interests. Duty, loyalty, tradition, mean nothing to him. His mind has flashes of great cunning, even brilliance. He's equally dangerous as ally or enemy.'     'All commendable virtues. What's to be said against him?'     'A
~ James Clavell
Yes. My ship'll be like her, he promised himself. She'll be trim and miniature and perfect like a Yoshitomo blade, and that's the best in the world, and just as dangerous. Next year she'll take a prize twenty times her own weight, like Mariko did at Osaka, ans she'll rip the enemy out of Asia.
~ James Clavell
The leading navies of the world were situated in a challenging period between the age of fighting sail and the age of nuclear propulsion when fuel was consumable and therefore a critical limit on their reach. Once the term steaming replaced sailing in the naval lexicon, the concept of an operating radius took root. "If an enemy lay beyond that radius, the fleet might as well be chained to a post," a maritime historian wrote.
~ James D. Hornfischer
My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.
~ Vanessa Redgrave
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
~ H. R. McMaster
What Public Enemy and Underground Resistance had in common was a rejection of the idea of music as entertainment.
~ Mark Fisher
It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.
~ Heinrich Himmler
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
~ John Bigelow
I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Don't let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!
~ Germany Kent
Fear is the greatest enemy of humanity, it paralyses tons and tons of people around the globe.
~ Euginia Herlihy