Quotes About Enemy

The moral victory itself may not be so moral after all, not only because suffering often has a narcissistic aspect to it, but also because it renders the victim superior, that is, better than his enemy. Yet no matter how evil your enemy is, the crucial thing is that he is human; and although incapable of loving another like ourselves, we nonetheless know that evil takes root when one man starts to think that he is better than another.

It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult.

You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?" "I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

A]s Norman Mailer pointed out decades ago, and Philip Roth not long afterwards, niceness is the enemy. Every soft stroke from society is like the pfft of an aerosol can as it eats up a few more atoms of our brain's delicate ozone, and furthers our personal cretinization.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

John Randolph of Virginia, a fierce opponent of the war, cautioned the House of Representatives in 1811 that twenty years of French radicalism had left their mark on the country's slave population. "God forbid, sir, that the Southern States should ever see an enemy on their shores, with these infernal principles of French fraternity in the van!

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Perfection is our enemy... not because we don't want perfect candidates, but because perfect candidates don't exist.

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

Il nemico è qui. Dentro le frontiere segnate dal capriccio e dalla bramosia di profitto. L'umanità che soffre e lavora, quella è la nostra patria. Il nemico, è l'oligarchia ladra che si ingozza del nostro sudore. Non ci ingannate più. ... Non mi ingannate più. E, in cuor mio, non vi perdono. Clément Duval.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by habituating them to defend themselves.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We pray because we're serious about taking back the ground he has sought to take from us.

Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth. It is kryptonite to the enemy and to all his ploys against you.

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you're fighting for something. Even though all you're really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing.

Because this is war. The fight of your life. A very real enemy has been strategizing and scheming against you, assaulting you, coming after your emotions, your mind, your man, your child, your future. In fact, he's doing it right this second. Right where you're sitting. Right where you are.

In prayer you gain your strength—the power to gird yourself with armor that extinguishes every weapon your enemy wields.

Your vicious enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unbridled soul.

Action is worry's worst enemy