Enemy Quotes - Page 87

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.

Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.

With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.

The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.