Enemy Quotes - page 9

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. (Joseph Addison)
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. View quote
George W. Bush
Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. View quote
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! View quote
Wilfred Owen
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place. View quote
Arundhati Roy
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end. To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor? View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth. View quote
Orson Scott Card
We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds. (Chester W. Nimitz)
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. View quote
William Temple
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. View quote
George Washington
The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ. View quote
Julian of Norwich
The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it-well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent. View quote
Camille Paglia
Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity. View quote
Saul Alinsky
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. (Hermann Hesse)
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor judge of character and quality. If anything is used too freely it loses its true meaning. Therefore, the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy! View quote
Anton LaVey
But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in. View quote
Nigella Lawson
I regard every Social Democrat as an enemy of the Empire and Fatherland. View quote
Wilhelm II of Germany
By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk