Words matter. These are the best Enemy Quotes from famous people such as Nguyen Cao Ky, George Takei, Nipsey Hussle, Ian Mckellen, Missy Elliott, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt ‘N’ Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It’s kind of watered down.
Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I’d go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom’s stereo – I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I’d know what I was doing.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
I’m an enemy of exposition. I feel there’s no need to overstate.
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
My biggest enemy is typically me.
Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people’s houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.
Every man is his own chief enemy.
Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization – listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
I think you should check out ‘Battle: Los Angeles’ because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it’s not. It’s not like anything you’ve seen before. The best way to describe it is it’s a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it’s incumbent upon us to.
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We’re trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
I do not stop repeating it to French Jews… Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.
When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
I don’t think you need to go looking for the enemy. He’s going to look for you.
We never broke up. As long as I’m living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy… which is good.
No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It’s not your neighbor right or left – and it’s not God or the devil – it’s you.
Our warriors and their families don’t ask for much. But there are a few things we’d like. A commander-in-chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars, calls the enemy by its name, and draws red lines carefully but enforces them ruthlessly.
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep the enemy always on the defensive.
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Especially today as we fight the war on terror – against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag – we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don’t even want to talk about. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I think I’ve finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.
The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.
The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn’t make us safe, and that applies whether it’s in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy.
Even though there wasn’t much damage, it’s a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many ‘fail’ stories.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better the human condition – whether it’s System of a Down, or Rage Against the Machine, or Public Enemy, or the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, or Pete Seeger. It’s a group that I’m proud to be counted among.
In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I’m an American.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Most of us, if we’re not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
I like Modest Mouse. I’m our biggest fan. And enemy. I won’t waste people’s time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That’s fair, right?
‘Dances with Wolves’ really started the movement, using subtitles for Lakota Sioux and showing Indians as interesting, complex people – not just the enemy – and giving a lot of unknown Indian actors work.
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.
Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Better is the enemy of good.
People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid ’80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the ’90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.
I’m a white male in power. In many cases, I’m the enemy.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
I hate politics. It’s slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don’t like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you’re not on my side, you’re the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
It’s true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an ‘enemy state,’ but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway.
I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
People can’t imagine an enemy that would cut someone’s head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.
My influences, going back through the history of rap, talk about Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe D, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy.
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points – Richmond and Atlanta – the enemy’s main strength is concentrated.
I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.
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.
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
The Public – a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it’s splintered, it has different distributions, it’s too complex to run for most people.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.
Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can’t do it, something holds them back… the same goes for shooting the enemy. We’ve got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn’t do it.
In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Nothing unites a group more than a common enemy, be it the Soviet Union or Nasty Nick from ‘Big Brother.’
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
We’re so obsessed with, ‘Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump tweet today? Did he call the press an enemy of the state?’ We’re so focused on that, we’re missing just the tremendous damage Trump is doing to the decency and moral character of this country.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
There’s something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy’s list.
When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
I am my best enemy.
Balance is the enemy of art.
In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy’s doubts is invincible.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.
Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they’re evil – I think it’s a terrible thing to do.
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.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don’t disclose it to your friend.
There was a time when I was in my sins and I was God’s enemy, but now I have been purchased in Christ, and God is for me. He is not going to do anything or command anything that is not ultimately for my good and for His glory.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Angela Davis’s legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.
The one thing that I’m always gonna promote is, ‘Don’t look at a fellow black man as an enemy.’ And it’s hard. It’s really hard, though, when you’re coming up. It’s something that you have to teach yourself and learn.
Repression is the enemy of civilization – so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
Good is the enemy of great.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can’t fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.
With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. It’s a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one’s own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy’s motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
I am certain – I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy – IS – and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn’t even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Jesse Helms has historically been identified as an enemy of Mexico; therefore, by definition, anyone who opposes him is a friend of Mexico.
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
By the ’50s and ’60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 – the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.
Mainstream media is the enemy… but now it’s time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.
The best is the enemy of the good.
We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
I never have a problem with the weight cut. My number one enemy is injuries because I train so hard.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
If I must fight, I’ll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
I’m calling out the enemy. He is Speaker Paul Ryan.
I am not an enemy of Adventism.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.
There’s an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
I think my worst enemy is me.
I’ve spent so much of life thinking of my body as my enemy.
There are certain people I do want to absolutely dislike me. And I want them to paint me as their enemy. Because I want nothing to do with them.
When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
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. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn’t live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up – things started to turn toxic.
Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that.
I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights… even politics, religion.
For heaven’s sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Black lives certainly do matter – that’s one thing. But, it’s just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it’s wrong to make cops – or any group – out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.
I can’t fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There’s your enemy in bed beside you.
Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.
We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
Ever since we’ve had electronic communications, and particularly during a time of war, presidents have authorized the electronic surveillance of the enemy.
Demonstrate to the world, there is ‘No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy’ than a U.S. Marine.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
Doubt is the enemy of mania. It’s trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today’s Republican party, just as the two Georges – the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern – found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.
I think that Jamal Khashoggi was an enemy of the state, and I don’t really think that it’s appropriate for American media institutions to be, you know, trying to generate sympathy. He’s not a hero.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Our friends, the enemy.
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren’t even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!
It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.
Memory is man’s greatest friend and worst enemy.
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it’s propaganda for the enemy.
I know the established Christian theology… I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn’t know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
As truth is Washington’s worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington’s enemy.
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.
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they’re not the enemy. They’re the people that hire you. They’re the people that are going to give you a job.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies – their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour – Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D – when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn’t have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.
Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
I am allergic highly to the sun; that’s my worst enemy.
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces’ capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
When I say ‘Crush your enemy’, I don’t literally mean it.
You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the ‘talking to your enemy’ approach is to equate talking with appeasing.
We need a common enemy to unite us.
We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn’t wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
It’s always great to have an enemy in politics; there’s no question about that.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
I have so many photos of myself in my room when I was a kid; I had one wall that was all TLC posters that I got free at some record store, then another wall was all Public Enemy, and the last wall was all ‘90210.’
When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
Turkey is not an enemy of Israel. I have worked closely with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
I’m not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.
The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I’m concerned, he’s public enemy No. 1. We’re never going to have a recovery while this guy’s in charge.
Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn’t take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
I wanted Season 2 of Luke Cage to be Ice Cube’s ‘Death Certificate,’ or Fugees’ ‘The Score,’ or Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,’ or my favorite, ‘The Low End Theory’ by A Tribe Called Quest.
Now I’m president. I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They’re such weird people. I’m fascinated by them. I use some of them as enemy characters in our games.
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime – and ordinary civilians – can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you’re not technically a coward.
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
I have porcelain skin and tattoos all over my body, so the sun can be my worst enemy. I also am trying to never age, which is why you can always find me hiding behind massive sunglasses or under an umbrella when the sun is out!
If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy – it doesn’t have to be about race, it could be about anything… you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you’re forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you’re forming a friendship.
When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to ‘close with, and destroy, the enemy.’ Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is ‘no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.’ We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.
The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.
To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
Your worst enemy as a writer – especially one working online a lot of the time – is obscurity.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
We’re facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn’t have a moral code of conduct.
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.
Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
My inbox is the enemy.
My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
The heads of the K.G.B. were deeply anti-Semitic and saw in Israel and world Jewry ‘a danger which is only second to the main enemy, the United States.’ The K.G.B. was intent on destabilizing Israel, totally disproportionate to the country’s strength or influence.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices – take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state.
Peace is not wimpy. It’s about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
Divorce is horrible. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. I don’t think it’s anything that’s ever completely resolved.
The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they’ve shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it’s our partner.
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn’t recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Balk the enemy’s power; force him to reveal himself.
We citizens don’t need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination.
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
We’re programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it’s done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It’s just that our perception of it isn’t.
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
I’m always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I’m packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it’s a tour bus going to safer places.
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.
CEOs hate variance. It’s the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
We’re real people and we’re a band that’s been playing on the scene for a long time. We’ve made a lot of friends, and one enemy we’ve always had was the NME. They’ve always basically slated us and they’ve basically never ever written about the music.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his assault on the old ‘decadent’ elites of Britain.
Like any family, like any group – the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy – they’ve had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.
I am not in the camp of ‘Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,’ and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.
We can’t be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
The enemy of successful long-term freezing is air. When air meets food, dehydration occurs, leading to freezer burn. With delicate proteins like fish, freezer burn can be downright fatal, ruining both texture and flavor.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
The government targets ‘Anonymous’ for the same reason it targets al-Qaida – because they’re the enemy.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
Nationalism is a major issue. If the country is safe, my children will be safe and so will be the future generations. We want a safe and strong nation so that no enemy country can stare us down.
I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.
A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they’ve got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men’s magazines and think, ‘Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.’
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.
We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera’s my worst enemy and my best friend. It’s the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, ‘You come alive as soon as the camera’s on!’
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy – I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he’s not an irrational man. He’s a very worthy enemy. He’s an enemy to worry about.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You’re making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the… they created their whole own world of music.
Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it’s not about containing but destroying this organisation.
I didn’t have any doubts about joining Arch Enemy.
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Age is not an enemy to me.
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!
Sometimes we make a mistake. Don’t treat us as the enemy.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
I’m my own worst enemy and I know that.
Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like ‘Game of Thrones’ to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.
We’ve waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is – the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
I think my worst enemy was myself. It’s like I’ve been in my own way more than anybody else has been.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn’t play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy’s heels.
Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself.
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn’t do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
The second song is called ‘Easy As Life,’ which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
There’s no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We’re all just trying to make a soup here, and they’re trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo’s almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.
I’ve actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you’re in trouble.
Every educated person is a future enemy.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
The reception for ‘Enemy?’ I don’t care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.
All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It’s not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.
I don’t believe in deadlines, I don’t believe in telling the enemy when we’re going to withdraw.
One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.
In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One – tell us who the enemy is. And two – say we are fighting to win.
Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
A breakup is hard enough, and to have it all filmed and have to re-watch it and know that people all across the country are watching you get your heart broken, it is embarrassing. It’s not fun. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you’re going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it’s usually you.
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.
ISIS is a learning enemy, and former Deputy Director of NSA Chris Inglis says that they have gone to school on the documents released by Edward Snowden and have changed their communications practices.
I’ve never dated anywhere else, so I only know L.A. dating, and I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy. I’ve pulled back and taken the pressure off of myself to figure it out, because there’s so much pressure about status that dating has become this game where you pull out all your tricks.
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy’s body.
It’s about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film’s about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Dullness is the enemy.
Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the ‘madman theory’: he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.
We’ve never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It’s been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they’re always the enemy.
The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.
Still, I have been no one’s enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
It’s impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that’s a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we’ve seen since the beginning of time.
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
We’re fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It’s a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
Politicians and leaders who see the media as ‘the enemy within’ divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.
When trying to start a company, your enemy isn’t criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.
Music is music – it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.
One never really knows who one’s enemy is.
Daesh is the enemy of Europe, and Europe cannot live with the idea that the crises that surround it don’t have an effect on it.
Good is often the enemy of best.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square… I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.
My first professional role was in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo’s enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.
There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it’s the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though… a senior citizen… my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation – if you’re in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.
In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.
When you are younger and more radical, the police seem like the enemy.
I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
Our enemy is hatred – the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.
I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we’re five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.
Food is not your best friend or enemy.
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela’s product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people – and also so pleasurable – make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There’s a chaos agent quality to them: You just don’t know who’s going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who’s become an enemy.
I don’t see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I’m not tempted to sell out. If I’m going to become well known, I want it to be for something I’m proud of.
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
If you always been my enemy, it’s still that way.
There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.
Whatever the number of a man’s friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.
You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims – not excuse it, but expect it. And that’s happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there’s an enemy within.
I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can’t analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries. Habeas corpus was suspended during the Napoleonic wars, and Defence Regulation 18b was applied during the Second World War.
Cool is the enemy of funny. You can’t be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you’re doing, you’re not doing it as well as you can. Don’t think about publishing, don’t think about editors, don’t think about marketplace.
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
That’s politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.
What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do ‘Enemy of the People’ with Steve McQueen. It doesn’t matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.
I really didn’t have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
What I don’t like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don’t think that’s how it works in American business.
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.
Suits are malevolent magicians’ sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.
A good model of how to ‘work with the enemy’ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don’t bring it to us.
And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.
After my grandfather’s plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.
It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
The president says, ‘What difference does it make what you call the enemy?’ Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, ‘Well, you know, boss, I don’t label this enemy that we’re facing.’
My biggest enemy has been my body.
There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don’t even care if these people exist.
Yahoo is a battleship. If you’ve ever seen a battleship, they’re gigantic, and Yahoo is gigantic in the terms of consumer Internet companies. To turn a battleship takes a long time, but once you turn that battle ship the right way, it’s a battleship, and it can really inflict some damage on an enemy or competition.
We can either be governed by fear – fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border – or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that’s America at its best.
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe… well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
Al-Qa’ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world’s Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world – you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it’s about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I’ve always been comfortable with being gay.
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.
Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
I really love rap music. I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J – I’m a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.
The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
I have read and heard so many stories from people all around the world describing how they’ve found their own reason to believe through Arch Enemy, and that genuinely inspires me and keeps me going.
My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
I’m one of those cats who could listen to Public Enemy and then pop that out and throw an NWA tape in there.
I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That’s probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agreement with a mortal enemy. And the White House – despite all their efforts – failed miserably.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples’ ideas of who you are or what you can do, that’s my biggest aim.
To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
I’ve had to learn that food is not my enemy. I work out once or twice a day and I’m lifting super heavy weights. I need fuel to keep going.
Time can be an enemy or a friend.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.
Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
I think high turnover is definitively the investor’s enemy, so you don’t want to bring a high-turnover philosophy to this business. You want to have a long-term philosophy.
I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.
Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.
Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
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.
You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and ‘behind the scenes,’ and now it’s a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy’s reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
You cannot tell the enemy you’re going to leave and expect the enemy to not – and expect to succeed. I mean, that’s just a fundamental of warfare.
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
When you’re young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.
The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
War itself is the enemy of the human race.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
I am not anyone’s enemy.
Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way.
New terms used like, ‘overseas contingency operation’ instead of the word ‘war’ – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can’t spin our way out of this threat.
In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.
The truth is that anyone… that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Any American who joins al Qaeda will know full well that they have joined an organization that is at war with the United States. Any American who did that should know well that they in fact are part of an enemy… and that the U.S. will do anything that is possible to destroy that enemy to save American lives.
Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.
In the past, my voice was my enemy.
Abortionists are not the enemy. Our enemy is sin.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off – even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
Fortunately, it’s still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of ‘dope’ means, it’s: ‘Definition of Public Enemy.’
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn’t think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations – sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
The greatest enemy one ever faces is one’s own self.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
Batman gets close to the insanity of Gotham, to the craziness, to what drives that city mad, and not be driven mad himself – or, at least, most of the time he isn’t. That’s most like the mission of the C.I.A. We get into the heads of our enemies without becoming our enemy.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
When I’m left on my own I’m my own worst enemy.
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
I’m not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I’m going to do.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
I agree that it’s absurd to call a category of music ‘female-fronted metal,’ because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don’t sound anything alike.
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of ‘targets’ to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
Our friends are happy with the CPEC project, while the enemy is quite unnerved due to this gigantic project.
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
If the ‘enemy combatant’ cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.
Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It’s a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it’s the enemy of comedy. It’s the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Under the Constitution, giving ‘aid and comfort’ to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
The press is the enemy.
Too much research can be the writer’s enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
I’m constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy’s camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm’s length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.
What’s a dancer’s worst enemy? Sometimes it’s age, but sometimes it’s the dancer themselves.
When I look back, I don’t have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I’m definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I’m trying very hard not to be that.
There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
I don’t dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the ’80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it’s all about status and bling now, and it doesn’t say anything to me.
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Conversations create change. It’s easy to call someone ‘enemy,’ but there’s more to it, right?
You know… life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can’t sink you if you’re with God.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style – it’s the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
Most people don’t actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.
When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group – there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world – when you decide to blanket statement that ‘Scientology is evil,’ you are my enemy.
Give the enemy an inch, he’ll take a yard.
We are held up by the radical Muslims as the enemy. So every time we go into one of these countries to do – we think – the right thing, we become propaganda for this radical movement.
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
I think the biggest challenge we faced in making ‘The September Issue’ was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They’re used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that’s judging you.
Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.
I never, in all my life, took any mean advantage of an enemy.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn’t been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.
You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists.
The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It’s a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life… it’s a religion. It’s not just something you put on a record.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
I think about this every day. I wonder, ‘Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is the enemy?’
To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.
By this time it was past six, and the enemy’s van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
If you’re an enemy, I would love for you to be a fan, because I don’t like enemies.
The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it’s the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
I don’t have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally – I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy’s camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
And I think people who sort of glibly say, ‘Well, you know, they’re not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,’ four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.
The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
I made ‘Enemy’ to prep myself for ‘Prisoners.’ I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That’s the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.
Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban’s not our enemy.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Given the opportunity to do another 9/11, our vicious enemy would do it today, tomorrow, and every day thereafter. I don’t know why they hate us, and I frankly don’t care, but they do hate us and are driven irrationally to our destruction.
Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It’s fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I’ll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I’m Googling types of oranges, I’m visiting chat rooms about oranges, I’m learning the history of the orange.
At first I felt terrible, then I realized… that no matter what I do the rest of my life… I’ll never do anything as distinguished as getting on Nixon’s enemy list.
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I’m proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy’s hand.
I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
