Quotes on Enemy

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all.

The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.