Enemy Quotes - Page 96

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.

Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't make fun of Romney for saying Russia was an existential enemy. He didn't have a hot mic exchange with a Russian President saying that he would be more flexible with the Russians after the elections.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.

Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.