Enemy Quotes - Page 33

Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.

To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.