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Quotes About Enemy

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.
~ Katha Pollitt
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
~ Walter Scott
The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.
~ Josip Broz Tito
Never fear your enemy but always respect them
~ John Basilone
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
~ Oren Arnold
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
~ Plutarch
After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
~ Malcolm X
And explaining them - I now feel myself duty-bound to do it, if only because I am the author of these records, to say nothing of the fact that the unknown is in general the enemy of man, and Homo sapiens is not fully man until his grammar is absolutely rid of question marks, leaving nothing but exclamation points, commas, and periods.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Let us not be defeated by our fears before we are defeated by the enemy.
~ Yiyun Li
Impulse, on the contrary, only admits instinct as its source of existence. It is the avowed enemy of common sense, which counsels the escape from exterior insinuations that one may concentrate, in order to listen to the voice which dictates to us the abstinence from doing anything until after making a complete analysis of the cause which agitates us.
~ Yoritomo-Tashi
Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.
~ young brigham ii
He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
~ young edward iii
The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
~ young wm paul
Even though he's my enemy I don't know anything about him. Am I afraid to know about him? Do I want to think of him as a monster rather than a human being? (Sarsa, Basara, Vol. 13)
~ Yumi Tamura
One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Complacency is the enemy of study.
~ zedong mao
Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
~ zedong mao ii
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
~ zedong mao iii
The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Antisemitism is not simply the hatred of something "foreign," but the hatred of a perpetual evil in the world. Jews are not an enemy but the ultimate enemy.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
like the Irish, if we have no external enemy we fight amongst ourselves, and this has been our custom for more than a century.
~ Deneys Reitz
Skulduggery placed both hands on the table and leaned over. "You've heard about me. You've heard about the things I've done." The smirk faded a little. "So?" "So the stories you've heard are nothing compared to the truth, and the truth is nothing compared to what I'll do to you if something happens to Valkyrie. I'm the worst enemy you could ever make, Silas. Look at me and answer honestly, do you believe me?" Nadir swallowed. "Yeah.
~ Derek Landy
How... how do I die?" "In pain," he said. "Screaming... She said there was an enemy you had to fight. A creature of darkness. She said Skulduggery fought by your side for some of it, but... she sensed things more than she saw them, you know? She felt terror, and death, and futility. She felt the world on the edge of destruction, and she sensed evil. Unimaginable evil.
~ Derek Landy