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Quotes About Enemy

Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
~ John McDougall
And Isaiah says in his prophecy concerning us that God said He would call them by a new name that He, Himself, would give them, one of His own names, and would take away the names of the enemy and would slay the enemy.
~ Elijah Muhammad
The more swiftly we proceed, the less time the enemy has to plan." "Do glass demons think?" "Under the circumstances, it's safest to assume they're up there drawing tactical maps in full relief." "Your argument has merit,
~ Elizabeth Bear
Now, he has the rage of the sun-eater and the sorrow he drank down with Muire's breath, and he is certain of nothing. So he lingers between spaces, liminal, indeterminate, watching for a glimpse of his enemy's face or the face that was never his lover's, and waiting.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Coincidence was possible. But what was much more likely was enemy action.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My enemy and my rider's enemy. He hunts her creatures.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Because I don't trust myself to make those decisions was not the sort of vulnerability you revealed to an enemy.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
sweet Shia, only bloody dragons would fly as fast as they could towards their greatest enemy! Anyone with sense would run the other way.
~ Elizabeth Kerner
Do not imagine, comrades, that I am simply looking for a revolutionary form of justice. We have no concern about justice at this hour! We are at war, on the front where the enemy is advancing, and the fight is to the death."3
~ Arthur Herman
The adept could, in truth, change those who were obnoxious to him into harmless and unimportant shapes, not as in the letter of the old stories, by transforming the enemy, but by transforming himself. The magician puts men below him by going up higher, as one looks down on a mountain city from a loftier crag.
~ Arthur Machen
An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Es lo malo de estas guerras —va diciendo Olmos, a su espalda—. Que oyes al enemigo llamar a su madre en el mismo idioma que tú, y como que así, ¿no?… Se te enfrían las ganas.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
y él murmuraba amen al tiempo que ellos, para que no se sintieran tan solos cuando caían al suelo y morían. Pero sus ojos claros y fríos estaban atentos a las ondulantes filas de la caballería enemiga
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Se creen las atrocidades del enemigo y niegan las de los suyos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
32. O my enemy, afflictive passion, Endless and beginningless companion! No other enemy indeed Is able to endure so long! 33. All other foes that I appease and wait upon Will show me favors, give me every aid, But should I serve my dark defiled emotions, They will only harm me, draw me down to grief.
~ ??ntideva
That's why political work and organizing are so important. Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us.
~ Assata Shakur
Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized. I felt that instead of fighting together against a common enemy, they wasted time quarreling with each other about who had the right line.
~ Assata Shakur
I believe in uniting with white revolutionaries to fight against a common enemy, but i was convinced that it had to be on the basis of power and unity rather than from weakness and unity at any cost.
~ Assata Shakur
Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.
~ Atul Gawande
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
~ August Strindberg
sabiendo, como lo sabe por experiencia, que el principal enemigo de los poderosos, aunque oculto como todo lo falso y endeble, no es otro que su propio poder.
~ Augusto Monterroso
Know my purpose: To be a stranger unto myself, the enemy of truth. Uncertain of what ye believe, belike ye half-desire?
~ Austin Osman Spare
The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.
~ Sebastian Junger