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Quotes About Enemy

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
~ Joel Osteen
The group within the cloak of secrecy is superior to the rest. Those not eligible for initiation are at best inferiors. They may be the enemy.
~ Sarah Chayes
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
~ Sarah Palin
When you encounter trouble of any kind, reach into your arsenal of prayers and speak one or more of them boldly. The enemy will retreat, and I will draw near.
~ Sarah Young
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in your preparations: helping you form prayers that will flow readily out of your heart. Then practice saying them to Me, until you're intimately familiar with them. When you encounter trouble of any kind, reach into your arsenal of prayers and speak one or more of them boldly. The enemy will retreat, and I will draw near.
~ Sarah Young
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
~ Saul Alinsky
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
~ Saul Bellow
The real action is in the enemy's reaction.
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. From
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, it results in confusion, fear, and retreat. [...] The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
~ Saul David Alinsky
By the first century, Samaritans were the stereotype enemy of Judaism, the embodiment of heretical faith, and the denier of Jerusalem-centered hope and faith. They still exist today at the same location.
~ Scot McKnight
Back in February 1915, when the plan had first been scuttled, Lawrence had bitterly suggested to his family that France was the true enemy in Syria. In the wake of the second scuttling in November 1915 was born an enmity that would cause him to view all future French actions in the region with utter distrust.
~ Scott Anderson
3. In the 1990s the U.S. Air Force did research on creating a gay bomb, a non lethal bomb that contained intense pheromones that would make the enemy's forces attracted to each other.
~ Scott Matthews
Our foe is defeated and waiting to be utterly destroyed. His present flurry of fury is actually a sign he knows his time is short.
~ Scotty Smith
How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.
~ John Waters
We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.
~ Deepak Chopra
Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
~ Dwight Schultz
Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.
~ Mark Twain
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performance of the pieties enjoined by the Church.  More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage, stop to pray before cutting his throat; more than once I had seen a noble, after ambushing and despatching his enemy, retire to the nearest wayside shrine and humbly give thanks, without even waiting to rob the body.
~ Mark Twain
In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories went up in the air and disappeared from the earth. It was a pity, but it was necessary. We could not afford to let the enemy turn our own weapons against us.
~ Mark Twain
He is my friend." "Nobody ever gets betrayed by their enemy.
~ Marlon James
Breathe. Ask. Love. If you can't love your enemy, love yourself. Soon
~ Martha N. Beck