Enemy Quotes - Page 75

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

When he served in China during World War II, [Ho Chi Minh] learned about Mao Zedong's tactics of guerrilla war against the Japanese (and later against Chiang Kai-shek's forces), and he translated some of Mao's works into Vietnamese. But it is clear that his own ideas on how to counter the enemy ran along the same lines.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

The enemy is always in the mind.

As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Don't fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class