Quotes About Enemy

The greatest enemy of the Greeks is not a Nation, for no Nation is a match for any Greek. It is the Greek himself that is his worst enemy.

You can be your own biggest enemy or your own greatest ally.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war."

God calls His people to celebrate Him with singing and playing, and then He promises to do a little drumming of His own, on the back of the enemy!

we cannot ignore the enemy of our souls, but neither should we lavish attention on him.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.

There can be no greater pleasure in life," Stalin is reputed to have said, "than to choose one's enemy, inflict a terrible revenge on him, and go quietly to bed." He might have added, if he really did say this, "secure in the knowledge that one has done good." Committing evil for goodness' sake must surely rank as an even greater pleasure than Stalin's: It satisfies the inner sadist and the inner moralist at the same time.

A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.

For first cometh to the mind the simple suggestion, then the strong imagination, afterwards pleasure, evil affection, assent. And so little by little the enemy entereth in altogether, because he was not resisted at the beginning. And the longer a man delayeth his resistance, the weaker he groweth, and the stronger groweth the enemy against him.

enemy than to suffer his people to be exposed to rapine

Truly a Thinking Man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such a one announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap him, and hoodwink and handcuff him.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

In every war," said Engelbrecht, "the armament maker who sells internationally is arming a potential enemy of his own country—and that, practically, if not legally, is treason.

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment.

She took me to a small office and told me that she had been trying to arrange for me to be examined by a gynecologist in a city hospital. But at that time the hospitals in Shanghai, controlled by the Red Guards and the Revolutionaries, were refusing to give medical treatment to "class enemies.

to see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?

If the soul within us does not change, Judas, the world outside us will never change. The enemy is within, the Romans are within, salvation starts from within!

Genocide is an invidious word that officials apply readily to cases of victimization in enemy states, but rarely if ever to similar or worse cases of victimization by the United States itself or allied regimes.

This bias is politically advantageous to U.S. policy-makers, for focusing on victims of enemy states shows those states to be wicked and deserving of U.S. hostility; while ignoring U.S. and client-state victims allows ongoing U.S. policies to proceed more easily, unburdened by the interference of concern over the politically inconvenient victims.

An enemy combatant can be anyone that the US chooses to attack, with no credible evidence, as Washington concedes.

The bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes to the average Arab citizen. Thus, Arab media never fail to be less than outrageous. They blamed the defeat on none other than Israel, as though self-defense and self-preservation was not a right to be exercised by the Jewish enemy.

And the New Republic or the New-New Republic or the Republic We Got This Week will clamp down hard and then those people with the so-called better way will become the brave rebel alliance and the Republic will become the enemy and the wheel will turn once more.

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.