Enemy Quotes

Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in wartime. We are not a barbaric state, and we do not enter any war with the intention of unilaterally killing anything in our path. We go out of our way to spare civilian lives, to keep those who are not in the war out of it--sometimes even at the expense of risking our own soldiers' safety. We do this by creating strict rules to which our soldies adhere. These rules govern when they can fire, when they cannot; what type of force they can use, what type they cannot; what they can do in particular situations, and what they cannot. The reason for this is that battles can become very confusing very quickly, and a common soldier needs simple rules to guide him, to know when he is or is not allowed to kill--and who is and is not the enemy.

~ Michael Delong

The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.

~ Robert Ferrigno

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

~ Sun Tzu

Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.

~ Toba Beta

Getting one of the weakness points of your enemies, could be your winning and your enemies' destruction

~ Abdulsalam Unshur

It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.

~ Fredrik Backman

•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

~ Emily Thorne

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

~ Anthony Horowitz

If you're confused about what to do,it's a sign that your enemy is winning.

~ Toba Beta

To stop the terrorist, we need to give born to our own terrorist; Ruthless than the enemy.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

~ Neal Shusterman

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

~ Chris Bradford

Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

~ Bianca Scardoni

Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.

~ Bohdi Sanders

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on.... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

~ Orhan Pamuk

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure.But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

~ Taras Shevchenko

I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

~ Peter Adejimi

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.

~ Christina Engela

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

~ Bette Davis

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

~ Sun Tzu

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

~ Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

~ Sun Tzu

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

~ George Washington

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

~ Chester W. Nimitz

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

~ Alfred Adler

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

~ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

~ Mao Zedong

The press is the enemy.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

~ Joe Slovo

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

~ Lennart Nilsson

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

~ Alice Thomas Ellis