Enemy Quotes - page 7

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. (Orlando Aloysius Battista)
Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty. View quote
Timothy Murphy
In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy. View quote
Pythagoras
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. View quote
Charles de Lint
It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding-not even that-no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. (Tennessee Williams)
One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may posses, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. View quote
Erwin Rommel
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. View quote
Vespasian
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. View quote
Colin Powell
The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States. View quote
George C. Marshall
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having "smitten a sleeping enemy"; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
Man is his own worst enemy. View quote
Cicero
Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route. (Alexander Suvorov)
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. View quote
Ernest Renan