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Quotes About Enemy

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
~ Max Brooks
Pearl Harbor, together with racism soon fuelled by tidings of Japanese savagery, ensured that Americans found it easy to hate their Asian enemy. But from beginning to end, few felt anything like the animosity towards the Germans that came readily to Europeans; it proved hard even to rouse American anger about Hitler's reported persecution of the Jews.
~ Max Hastings
The record suggests that official secrecy does more to protect intelligence agencies from domestic accountability for their own follies than to shield them from enemy penetration.
~ Max Hastings
The egoist, turning against the demands and concepts of the present, executes pitilessly the most measureless — desecration. Nothing is holy to him! It would be foolish to assert there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of — every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it out friend and be humble toward it.
~ Max Stirner
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
~ Mel Brooks
He wanted to look at the face of his enemy - or at least upon his ashes.
~ Melanie Rawn
Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.
~ Melina Marchetta
You know, I do have some ability to resist your charms, Marco." He smiled at her as he held the passenger side door open. "I'm trained to break through the enemy's front line." "So you think of me as the enemy?" "No, not really. Just as someone I need to conquer.
~ Unknown
Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Escre)ver-me nunca escrevi sou apenas um tradutor de silêncios a vida tatuou-me nos olhos janelas em que me transcrevo e apago sou um soldado que se apaixona pelo inimigo que vai matar
~ Mia Couto
The GOP survived the Civil War and North v South. It will not fade as we have a common enemy. A democrat.
~ Unknown
There is however the concept which Ian Fleming allowed "Goldfinger" to propound: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.
~ Unknown
If our lives are to bring glory to God and serve as real threats to the purposes of the enemy, we must grow in what it means to be a safe-place people so we can be transformed and empowered to live like Jesus did—as one who is at the same time a safe place and the dangerous kind.
~ Unknown
to fight, one must know the enemy and must love passionately what is to be preserved.
~ Unknown
What are the options then? Immerse yourself in a regular job of work which will give you the illusion of solidity and safety through activity, so that you are prevented from ever having to address the real issues of your life...In this sense activity is the soul's worst enemy and should be avoided.
~ Unknown
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
~ Michael Herr
Martin] Luther was a kind, warm-hearted man. But he attacked anyone he felt was an enemy of Christ. The worst side of him was expressed in his attacks on Jews. He also attacked Turks, who were Muslims, Catholic followers of the Pope, and even other groups of Protestants. These attacks became more and more violent as he grew older.
~ Unknown
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy; and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behavior in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.
~ Michael Oakeshott