Enemy Quotes - Page 26

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.