Quotes About Enemy

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

Prime Minister Najib had continuously denounced me as an enemy of the Malaysian state and accused me of spreading Fake News.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.

An administration that really wanted to win an ideological contest with the Chinese Communist Party would stand up for human rights consistently, rather than calling journalists anywhere 'the enemy of the people.'

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

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