Enemy Quotes - Page 51

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words.

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.

Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."