Quotes About Enemy

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.

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death.

Brugha argued against ambushes, preferring what Deasy termed 'straight fights'. He wanted the ambushers to call on the Auxiliaries or Tans to surrender before fire was opened. The Cork OCs pointed out that if they did this they would be robbed of their principal weapon, surprise, which they badly needed against a numerically superior and more heavily armed enemy.

We can be for peace without supporting the enemy. We can be against this war without rooting for the other side.

Uncertainty is a spiritual enemy that will siphon out your rocket fuel. It turns go-getters into giver-uppers.

The president of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, Makhmut Gareyev, a retired general who had served in the Red Army from 1941 to 1992, was highly attuned to the power of disinformation as an instrument of war: "The systematic broadcasting of … partially truthful and false items" could create "mass psychosis, despair and feelings of doom, and undermine trust in the government … creating a fruitful soil for actions of the enemy.

As the technology of espionage expanded its horizons, the CIA's vision grew more and more myopic. Spy satellites enabled it to count Soviet weapons. They did not deliver the crucial information that communism was crumbling. The CIA's foremost experts never saw the enemy until after the cold war was over.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

Simply in focusing our attention on the "enemy" Ignatius is rendering us a great service. To be unaware that we can expect resistance when we seek the Lord, or to be aware of this resistance only abstractly and very occasionally, if at all, in the actual living of our spiritual life, greatly increases the likelihood of encountering unexpected spiritual struggles. What is unexpected and finds us unprepared is difficult to overcome and can easily lead to discouragement.

Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as they contemplate their final defeat. Thus any problem in the Soviet Union could be defined as an example of enemy action, and enemy action could be defined as evidence of progress. P. 41

Il primo passo di ogni guerra è la disumanizzazione del nemico. Il nemico non è un uomo come te, quindi non ha gli stessi diritti.

primo passo di ogni guerra è la disumanizzazione del nemico. Il nemico non è un uomo come te, quindi non ha gli stessi diritti.

The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médiocre pour être populaire.

Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Cada impresión producida crea un enemigo. Para ser popular hay que ser una mediocridad

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.

For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known.