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Quotes About Enemy

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
~ Zach Wamp
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
~ Larry Niven
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say "we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.
~ E. M. Cioran
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
~ E.M. Forster
Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
quoting Baldwin: "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.
~ Edmund Morris
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
~ Edward Albert
In my day," I replied, "it was considered that the proper functions of government, strictly speaking, were limited to keeping the peace and defending the people against the public enemy, that is, to the military and police powers." "And, in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England, Germany, or hunger, cold, and nakedness?
~ Edward Bellamy
Open rebuke is better than secret love.Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
~ Anonymous
Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
~ Anonymous
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
~ Anonymous
Hannibal ad portas [Hannibal is at the gates]!
~ Anonymous: Latin
There was a ship came from the north country,And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity.And they feared she might be taken by the Turkish enemy,That sails upon the Lowland, Lowland, Lowland,That sails upon the Lowland sea.
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Roman survivors of an ambush "had hard work to withstand the enemy's onslaught till nightfall;
~ Anthony Everitt
Instantly identifiable, he was not only a human flag or standard to be followed and protected at all costs, but also a key enemy target.
~ Anthony Everitt
That's what he said, Mum. He often used to say that he made an enemy every time he did a divorce, because someone had to win and someone had to lose.' He thought for a moment. 'Did you tell them he was being followed?
~ Anthony Horowitz
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
~ Mitt Romney
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
~ John Keats
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'
~ Saul Alinsky