Quotes About Enemy

We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

Al parecer no podemos pasarnos sin el enemigo. La figura del enemigo no puede ser abolida por los procesos de civilización.

Tener un enemigo es importante no solo para definir nuestra identidad, sino también para procurarnos un obstáculo con respecto al cual medir nuestro sistema de valores y mostrar, al encararlo, nuestro valor. Por lo tanto, cuando el enemigo no existe, es preciso construirlo.

Perdona siempre a tu enemigo. No hay nada que le enfurezca más»)

So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

Uvek je neophodno pripisati nekome krivicu za sopstvene neuspehe, diktature uvek pronalaze spoljašnjeg neprijatelja da bi njihove vlastite pristalice zbile svoje redove. Kao što je neko ve? rekao, za svaki složeni problem postoji jednostavno rešenje koje je uvek pogrešno.

It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep's clothing.

That's where we beat the enemy," he exclaimed. "Our wits are quicker; our people are accustomed to thinking for themselves, and wherever there is an emergency there is always an idea to meet it.

They thought about their class and their class privileges, their property and their property system, and they thought about little else in the world. Their system was threatened in every country, and they were frightened, and hated what they feared. Class had become more than country, and the enemy at home more to be dreaded than anyone abroad.

All German science, all German discipline, all German wealth, were being directed to this end, so that when Der Tag came along, the German army should have an air cover to protect it, first to drive its enemy out of the skies and then to crush his defenses and enable the Wehrmacht to march where it would.

You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

However, in cases of massive trauma at the hands of an enemy, the transgenerational transmission of unfinished psychological processes are generalized and are inevitably involved in strengthening the shared large-group identity and even in modifying it. This is a vast and very important topic that I will examine later in this volume.

Throughout the years, I have observed that participants who voluntarily become involved in unofficial dialogues with the enemy are seen to some degree as traitors by those in their own community who are against all communication with the enemy. These participants may also experience shame for talking with the enemy, which is intensified if and when the enemy carries out some violent act while the talks are going on.

projective identification.194 From childhood on, human beings utilize certain mental mechanisms to get rid of unpleasant aspects of themselves and assign them to others. Members of one group in conflict may attempt to define their identity through externalizing and projecting unwanted aspects onto the enemy.

Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength.

To conclude wars decisively and achieve prewar aims, the victor must defeat, and often even humiliate militarily, an enemy and force the loser to abandon prewar behavior before offering a magnanimous peace. "Humiliate," here, does not mean to gratuitously insult or ridicule a prostrate enemy but rather to show him that the wages of his unprovoked aggression are the end of his ability to make war on others.

Prewar education, reputation, influence, and rank matter little when the enemy is gaining ground and very few know how to turn him back.

One was made famous by Ulysses S. Grant and later John J. Pershing, emphasizing finding the enemy, then confronting and destroying him through overwhelming firepower.

When you're in war, you don't have to be perfect to be good, you just have to be 51% better than the enemy if you want a moral edge. We in the West have this Utopian idea that we have to be 99.9% good, and if we're not, then we're no damned good. And the enemy knows that.

The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look towards this enemy, this frozen and brazen gamin, who had both hands in his pockets, but his wits evidently out of their sheath.

to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it.

This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

The source of most of our problems of the past twenty-five years and certainly of the grave problems that beset our country today, lies in this schism between those who believed in the traditional school of national planning and overt diplomacy and those who believed in a passive role of reaction to a general enemy (Communism).