Quotes About Enemy

I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.

We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

My name's all about the bible. Malichai was either just a book or a prophet or both, although my mother couldn't even get the spelling right. That was so like her. [...] But he felt more often, he was the prophet, letting his enemy know he was doomed.

You may as well have written your name in the sky with your challenge, Gregori." "I want the vampire to be very clear about who I am, whom he has chosen for his enemy.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

In the struggle against that state of affairs criticism is no passion of the head, it is the head of passion. It is not a lancet, it is a weapon. Its object is its enemy, which it wants not to refute but to exterminate.

Exactly," T'Pol said. "Surak wrote of this in the Kir'Shara. 'Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.' Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less.

Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.' Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less.

Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to loose.

Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to lose, he thought. Which is what I have become.

War, a struggle between "our people" and "the enemy," creates a polarized world in which "the enemy" is easily objectified and removed from the community of human obligation.

While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.

During this time Jefferson Davis made a speech in Macon, Georgia, which was reported in the papers of the South, and soon became known to the whole country, disclosing the plans of the enemy, thus enabling General Sherman to fully meet them. He exhibited the weakness of supposing that an army that had been beaten and fearfully decimated in a vain attempt at the defensive, could successfully undertake the offensive against the army that had so often defeated it.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

The victory at Chattanooga was won against great odds, considering the advantage the enemy had of position, and was accomplished more easily than was expected by reason of Bragg's making several grave mistakes: first, in sending away his ablest corps commander with over twenty thousand troops; second, in sending away a division of troops on the eve of battle; third, in placing so much of a force on the plain in front of his impregnable position.

War at all times, whether a civil war between sections of a common country or between nations, ought to be avoided, if possible with honor. But, once entered into, it is too much for human nature to tolerate an enemy within their ranks to give aid and comfort to the armies of the opposing section or nation.

I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep. Hence the Jews. Divine providence has given them to us, and so, by God, let us use them, and pray there's always some Jew to fear and to hate. We need an enemy to give people hope.

Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal.

TotuÈ™i, înc? de la început, sunt configuraÈ›i ca duÈ™mani nu atât cei care ne amenin?? direct (cum ar fi cazul barbarilor), ci aceia pe care cineva are interes s?-i reprezinte ca fiind amenin??tori, chiar dac? nu ne amenin?? direct, astfel încât nu caracterul lor amenin??tor s? le scoat? în relief alteritatea, ci alteritatea lor s? devin? semn de ameninÈ›are.