Enemy Quotes

Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.

~ Francine Rivers

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

~ Sun Tzu

Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!

~ Elizabeth Wein

Be where your enemy is not.

~ Sun Tzu

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

~ Emily Thorne

Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.

~ Toba Beta

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

~ Sun Tzu

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

~ Joseph Bruchac

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

~ Sabaa Tahir

With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Oh, the child you threatened once, the young shoot you stepped on, the Tamil you teased, is standing with a gun in front of you. His presence is taking you by surprise. How can you understand that it is the occupier who creates a poorali? You once dealt the blow. Now you are imprisoned. When a fox tries to eat the goat, the goat must turn into a tiger and leap. That is the edict of the times.

~ Malaravan

If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings, free yourself from that person’s ugliness.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon

~ Howard Tayler

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

~ George Soros

We are not against the evil when our enemies are.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.

~ Criss Jami

A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Know your enemy, but don't give him all your energy.

~ Jeanette Coron

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemyof every religion.From: Gesels van een imaginaire god('Scourges of an imaginary god')

~ A.j. Beirens

You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

~ Laurens Van Der Post

The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.

~ Daniel Black

Enemies aren't always garnered through action... Sometimes they appear for no other reason than to shame the goodwill of loving & kind people.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

he had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it.

~ Grace Crandall

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?

~ Suzy Kassem

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

~ Yitzhak Rabin

How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?

~ Milan Kundera

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

~ Criss Jami

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Peace of ManGreet each man with words of loveAnd peace,And a dove will be placedOn an olive tree.Leave a man with feelingsOf betrayalOr envy,And a dove gets shotOff the olive tree.Greet each man with peace,And leave each man with love.Ask yourself -One more enemy,Or one more dove?Always choose love.It's time for everybody toSpeak love.Let's fill the trees with doves,And spread the leaves of love.So,Always addAnd never subtractAnother peace of manFrom the olive tree.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world.

~ Debasish Mridha

The worst enemy in life is resentment.

~ Debasish Mridha

Never hate an enemy, love them and transform them into a friend.

~ Debasish Mridha