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Quotes About Enemy

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.
~ Steven Magee
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.
~ Toba Beta
...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)
~ Sebastian Junger, War
Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.
~ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.
~ Brian Van Reet, Spoils
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are
~ Joshua Teya
The only thing more dangerous then your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are.
~ Joshua Teya
The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.
~ Debasish Mridha
We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.
~ Stanis?aw Pigo?
Never diagnosed the enemy before.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Glory Main
Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
~ Kate Elliott, Traitors' Gate
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.
~ Duke of Wellington
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
~ Joseph Heller
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
~ George Washington
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
~ Rumi
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.
~ William Temple
Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.
~ Tariq Ramadan
My profession is the business of human rehabilitation, which goes today by the name of dancer… All the power of civilized morality, hand in hand with the capitalist economic system and its political institutions, is utterly opposed to using the body simply for the purpose, means, or tool of pleasure. Still more, to a production-oriented society, the aimless use of the body, which I call dance, is a deadly enemy which must be taboo.
~ Tatsumi Hijikata
Love is the enemy of sound judgment, and occasionally this is in service of the good.
~ Tayari Jones
love is the enemy of sound judgement, and occasionally this is in service of god.
~ Tayari Jones