Enemy Quotes - Page 64

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

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.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

The universe works with you and for you. It is not your enemy.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.

Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.

An enemy should be struck at his weak point.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.